(Originally posted on Fastseduction.com forums at this link
http://www.fastseduction.com/masf/114/258226/ )
I’ve been in the community since 2002 and have taken a Mystery seminar and a RSD workshop (my RSD review was posted I believe in Jan 2004). Im not going to say one is better than the others as they all have been very useful. All these workshops however are different. So this review will focus upon what is unique about this workshop.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately my ass is broke as a student, but I was offered the opportunity to sit in on this workshop if I helped out by making coffee, keep things clean, run the camera, etc. I was not able to attend friday, so this report is for saturday and sunday only. Also I was not able to participate in all exercises as paying customers had first priority.
The Art of Attraction focuses upon the first crucial 10 minutes of pickup. Approximately 1/3 of the time was spent on the instructors talking, about 1/3 on practice, and 1/3 in the field. This allows a nice transition as they first give you the knowledge, then improve your game with practice, then you do the real thing.
Before this workshop I mostly dropped scripted routines. I run routines more as concepts dropping them into the conversation when appropriate and usually dont do a routine the same way twice. Extremely canned routines can work great but I want to be more natural and situational. This workshop convinced me to start playing with routine stacks. I think even if you do go more natural it is good to go back and do scripted routines once in a while (good to do a wide variety of methods).
The best things about Pickup 101 imho are the following:
- The instructors seem to sincerely care very much about the students improving their game. The instructors do not feel the need to show off in the field. Their number one priority is the students (whereas in other workshops the #1 priority for the instructors sometimes seems to get laid and the students are priority #2).
- Personalized stories/routines. Instead of just giving students textbook routines the instructors work with the students to develop stories that are congruent with them. I listened to alot of the same stories over and over again and some of them werent so good saturday morning. However by sunday evening some of these same stories were so good I could not help but crack up even after hearing the same stories 5-10 times.
- Practice. You cant learn pickup by simply reading, listening, or watching someone good. You have to actually practice it. The 1/3 of the time practicing before going into the field was an excellent middle ground. The kino/body language practice was excellent. By practicing ones material in front of instructors (and girls) before doing so in the field helps tremendously (Unfortunately I was not able to do this as I was filming/observing).
- Sunday night, sheets were given to the students to systematically keep track of their approaches. By quickly looking at your last 50 approaches you can see what you have and have not been doing. E.g., I discovered I was not doing much kino at all as I only had a few checks under the kino column.
The only minor negative I can think of is the instructors pushed to sell other workshops or consulting at the end. I dont think this should have taken up workshop time the students had paid for. I think the point was atleast in part to work out scheduling issues with the students instead of just saying we are doing this on these dates. None of the students complained about selling more and in fact many of the students decided to further work with these guys so obviously they felt the workshop was well worth the money.
Jason
