Going solo – I think it is useful because it teaches self-reliance. You learn to do what you should be doing without the need for anyone else to be there to help you out.

The quality of response information is higher too because you know the person you are interacting with is responding only to you and not the wing man. It forces you to take responsibility for when you fuck up or you get the credit for when it goes well. Thus, you can more efficiently fine tune what you are doing to improve it next time.

I find recording the sarges sometimes motivates me – if I am going to post them. Kind of like an invisible wing to egg you on. But that is just a non-essential addition.

I really find it useful to do warm ups – to get outside my head and into a talkative frame of mind. I tell little stories to loads of people I meet in shops or bus stops. It helps relax me. When we are relaxed, it is easier to get the people we talk with to relax too.

Too many guys need someone to hold their hand. That is not cool. It’s not alpha and it’s not good to have a cock farm.

A wing can be useful but mastering the basics, for me, is primary. People are often less defensive too if you are on your own. You seem more authentic in a pub or bar if you are chatting socially like this, rather than if there is a pair of you – this can telegraph sexual interest (if you are playing non-direct game).

Also if you are on your own you have to talk to new people if you want to be even a little bit social. Good thing.

I sometimes talk on my mobile phone to get sociable – either to a real person or to myself. This gets me outside my head. I’ll talk to people in shops 2-5pm and then head to a bar for a drink or two to use that socialising impetus I have built up. The after work crowd can be fun to meet and there are often happy hours to hit too.

I try to get into a playful state. In Prague I took on a silly Russian sounding voice that I thought mimiced the Slavic toned English I heard around me. I can’t do Czech English, it seems to come out sounding Russian. I talked to people in this silly voice and it got me cracking up laughing to myself internally. I couldn’t take it too seriously when I spoke in that voice.

I talked to people giving out leaflets, I asked them what their information was about and compared their leaflet with the one I had taken earlier from someone else. I was in the position of evaluator. They had to qualify their concert to me. I used sexually playful language once I had them locked in – e.g. “I like clock, clock likes me, I always have time for clock, I like big clock, English have big clock, Big Ben”.

I tried to change money, saying it was from 1988 from Communist era. I ‘put them on’ for my own fun. People were drawn to me and wanted to know who I was. Eventually I came out of character for 30 seconds and levelled with them about where I am from, then I’d go back into character and they’d crack up laughing again. They’d introduce me to their friends.

All this is solo sarging and was a successful way to meet new people in the field.

Also it’s good to have contact information ready to give out if you are in a hurry – can be a self-contructed identity.

Have have somewhere scouted out as a base where you can take them back to for a quick drink. In fact pick a couple of places so you can venue change.