Archive for the ‘Field Techniques’ Category

Cold Reading

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Cold reading is an area I’ve been interested in for many years and have used with much success in the field. I remember laying HB Sunday after I used cold reading on her and her friends in the guise of palmistry. I’d met her a couple of weeks before and made out with her in some bars then I came across her on a night out with her friends. Using the strategy of disarming potential cockblocks, I worked on her female friends first, using palmistry to cold read first one, then many. They were literally lining up to be ‘read’ by me.

Following on from this display of value, social proof kicked in and HB Sunday’s friends gave her the ‘go ahead’ or the validation that I was definitely someone she ought to get closer to. Interestingly, ‘becoming closer to this person’, was a theme I had embedded and linked to myself during some of the palmistry I’d been doing on her friends.

If you have seen psychics/mediums/tarot card or palm readers/clairvoyants either in real life or in the media, chances are you will be observing and listening to a display of cold reading. Once you have studied the techniques, you’ll see how much of what works can be explained through the non-psychic techniques anyone can learn with some training.

In my own field of sarging, cold reading can be combined with other techniques such as Cialdini’s Weapons of Influence, Speed Seduction, Ericksonian hypnosis, NLP and knowledge of cognitive biases. When you can put all these together and use them in your daily interactions with people, you really can turbo-charge your persuasive impact, connect with people and display value. There is much overlap within these areas and they naturally extend into each other’s territory in many aspects.

Take, for example, cold reading and cognitive biases -people tend to forget the ‘misses’ and remember the ‘hits’, thus crediting you the reader/sarger with deep levels of understanding which you simply did not have but were able to guess at within a probability game set up by you and whose odds are tipped greatly in your favour.

It’s a huge area and one I can and will write a lot more about.

Scouting Pick Up Locations

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Recently I moved to a new apartment. It’s close enough to the city centre that I can enjoy the social life but it is far enough away to offer peace and quiet. Following a move to a new area, it pays to scope out pick up venues – places to meet a girl, venue change her and move her into a sex location.

Therefore, this weekend I went out to investigate the territory which, after all, is now my local turf.

What should one look for in pick up locations?

I seek locations where I can:

  1. get social through doing warm ups
  2. meet high quality girls
  3. venue change
  4. access a sex location

With these in mind, I visited a restaurant with a bar near my apartment. It had some class – a well-heeled clientele ate there but it was too family oriented, lifeless and staid for my liking. So, seeking somewhere livelier and younger with more singles, I made my way to a pub nearby and immediately liked it. It was quite busy but not so noisy you couldn’t speak. The customers were around my age and it had a friendly vibe. The lay out was good because it was not all people seated at tables in closed sets – people could move around and meet at the bar easily. There was a lot going on, which lent itself to using neutral entertaining openers – an added bonus. This venue fitted the bill for a warm up venue.

Next  I moved on to a bar/club I’d seen advertised on the Internet. I hadn’t known it was in my new area but I gravitated straight towards it when I saw the sign outside because it triggered an association in my mind. It pays to keep your eyes and ears open. First I walked passed and looked in to get an impression of what the clientele were like – how they were dressed, the ages, their likely occupation etc. This helps me judge what role/persona to adopt when I go in for maximum persuasion impact.

It seemed more up market than the warm up venue – the customers were rich students with money to burn at weekends. I decided that is who I was going to be when I went in – a top level student commanding authority e.g. doing a Masters or PhD degree, should my interactions develop into that area. I worked some sets, scoping out the venue and surmising that downstairs girls had higher bitch shields whereas girls upstairs were more laid back. This place fitted the niche of a sarge venue with legitimate targets. This is the kind of place I would gladly move on to, and spend time in, having done my warm up sets in the pub down the road.

Finally, the sex location. Based on my observations of the area and chats with the clientele of the rich student venue, I knew many of my potential targets would live in the residential area around the club. It was a student area and many of these targets would be living away from home for the first time, thus potentially able to enjoy sexual liberation. I also understood the importance of winning over the whole set because many students share accommodation and in order to be invited back to her place I would potentially need to win over any housemates. Beyond that, I knew my apartment was a walkable distance and I could use the excuse of ‘having a look at the marina’ to isolate her close to my place. If you don’t live near such venues, at least find out about the transport options to get her back efficiently to your/her place. Think of plausible reasons for isolating her outside the venue.

There weren’t a great deal of other places to venue change to beyond taking her back to the warm up pub. I’ll need to do further research on nearby venues suitable for a possible venue change. But with the other elements of this equation I was successful to a high degree.

Try this formula in your local area.

 *Update* – I found a local cinema that is good for day 2s. It’s classy, traditional and romantic. Best of all, it’s reasonably priced, AKA cheap :-)

Social Proof Mindshaping

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

An additional Mindshaping technique is using social proof to influence that special girl in your life. Think of this as an appendage to my previous, main, post on Mindshaping.

Giving your girl expectations to live up to based on what other people have done is another key way of installing your values and desired ways of thinking into her.

We can shape her mind by reporting how other people acted in society and how:

1. Society endorsed that behaviour (if it is something we want her to do herself)

or

2. How society chastised that behaviour (if it is something we want her to move away from).

For example if we say:

1. “Talking of birthday parties, I remember a while back we had a great party with the guys at work. The girls really let their hair down and it was wild. I think a couple of people from our office got it on in the bathroom of the restaurant we went to. We were so jealous of them. They had a really exciting time…”

2. “Have you noticed how everyone hates these girls who wear prudish clothes? My friend told his girl to dress better and when she didn’t get it, he had to break up with her and find someone who knew how to dress like a woman. It happens a lot.”

Use the power of social proof as a tool for shaping her mind.

Sarging Swedish Girls

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

When I was first asked to give advice to Americans about sarging in Sweden, my thought was DON’T DO IT!

Don’t sarge in Sweden, I mean, not don’t share my 4 years of experience :-)

Those years saw me living in Stockholm and Gothenburg, sarging scores of super-model quality HBs, the hottest I’ve ever met, and exploring sexually in ways I never did with English girls.

The reason I thought ‘don’t do it’, is because it can become a life sentence. So good are your prospects as an American, Canadian, Australian or Brit that it’s entirely possible you could plan to go to Sweden for 2 weeks and stay 10 years. I can personally attest to meeting and working with native English speakers who had travelled to Sweden on vacation, met a SHB, stayed on there for the sake of the relationship and the mind-blowing sexual options, had a kid and found themselves still in Sweden years later.

This is the reason I warn about going to Sweden – you need to know what you are getting into and you need to be strong. The story of Odesseus in Greek mythology sees the hero tying himself to the mast of his ship as he sails through the valley of the beautiful Sirens who attempt to lure him. Such are the sarging prospects in Sweden that you need to be as strong as Odesseus if you want to win the game on your terms. Many a brave American I met during my time there had sailed to Sweden after hearing the Sirens’ call and found himself checkmated into a LTR or marriage when all he’d wanted was some action in the sack. I and the people I met called ourselves ‘the refugees of love’, because we were all western English speakers living with hot Swedish chicks in what turned out to be a quite an alien environment.

So why am I both warning you of long term entrapment and revealing hints of the sexual paradise that awaits? Simply because so often a choice has to be made between one’s short term enjoyment and the sacrifices one makes when living in what remains, still, a rather different culture.

Sweden is cold in winter, the people tend to be reserved and unemotional and it’s bloody expensive. On the other hand, they tend to like English speaking westerners, they are sexually liberated and are carnally open in ways that make your typical western Anglophone society seem Victorian and prudish.

Having said all this as a pre-cursor, here are some thoughts on sarging in Sweden.

First, speak English. Let people know you are American or British etc. I learned this the hard way – I speak decent Swedish but I still sound foreign to the Swedes. They sometimes took me for a Yugoslavian refugee and would not respond to my openers. From their point of view, Americans and Brits simply don’t speak Swedish; certainly not as well as I can. Therefore, the Swedes seemed to surmise that because I was white and spoke Swedish with a foreign accent I must be some immigrant type. My attempts to open at the bus stop, on the street and in bars were met with suspicion. Immigrants are not high value people in Sweden, usually. But when I spoke English and let them know early on I am British, the response was so much better. They’d say things like ‘Oh I love London!’, and ‘Do you know there are more people living in London than in all of Sweden’, or ‘You’re English! I love the Beatles’. From there it was much easier to build rapport.

In the bedroom I was able to push for new sexual boundaries including getting my LTR to admit she wanted to try sex with another girl. I’d never had that from English girls, ever! I could go into more graphic detail in this area and expound on the new sexual borders I crossed with my LTR but I’ll save it and be discreet, at least online.

I laid Swedish girls too on holiday in Copenhagen, Croatia and Turkey. I had them visit me in Spain and England. They were all great times of exploring sexually. The Swedish chicks are so more feminine than the British or American chicks. Many times I just met a Swedish girl in a one to one situation – they tend to be strong on equality and it’s not like some places where girls go out only with other chicks. In Sweden I was able to meet girls in restaurants and bars when they were on their own. Also, I was able to meet chicks through fore-play parties. When I was first invited to one, I almost shot my load. They turn out, though, to be parties for drinking before the night out proper happens. Be warned, the drinks are damned expensive in Sweden so it’s quite common to go to a pre-party party in someone’s house to save money. Then you have the night out, followed sometimes, by after-play. In both the foreplay and after-play parties I was able to build attraction and close the deal.

Although individual equality, especially for women’s rights, is emphasized a lot in Sweden, the group is incredibly important. Not rocking the boat and fitting in is an important concept. There is the concept of ‘lagom’, which means average or just enough; not too much and not too little. The Swedes like lagom, and if you disrupt it by challenging the established Swedish way of doing things, you can pay a place of being alienatated by the group. This is important when gaming because you need to pay special attention to winning over the group if the chick is in a set. Having the group accept you and see you as cool is especially important in Sweden and it is a double edged sword in the sense that if you do succeed in winning the group to you then that group conformity works for you and not against you. In addition, the men tend to be quite shy and the women more the bosses.

In my experience, the younger Swedish chicks like a bad boy foreigner when they are younger – they like the fun, excitement and the novelty. But when they are slightly older and it comes to long term relationships and having kids, they often settle with a boring, dependable Sven (a Swedish man). Not always, but damn often enough for me and the other guys I used to sarge with to notice it and comment on it in agreement.

There is a ton more I could say about Sweden, especially about the psychology of the people when it comes to sarging, but I’ll leave it there for now and perhaps I can do a Q and A session as a follow up.

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