London Boot Camp Review 8th-10th Aug - The Attraction Forums

iBall · #1 (**permalink**) 08-11-2008, 05:01 AM

London Comprehensive Boot camp 8th-10th August

During my summer holiday this year a friend suggested 'The Game' as some reading for the beach. Thing is, it turned out to be reading for the beach, the dolphin show, the cafe, the pool in fact anywhere I could find an excuse to pick it up. Being a single guy in my thirties and somewhat suffering from a 5 year one-itus I thought it was time to take control. Three weeks after reading the book the 'Mystery Method (Love Systems) boot camp was booked!

After my initial deposit was paid it was somewhat frustrating to find no information on how the rest of the balance could be paid. Indeed it took two emails before I got a response and even then the response was somewhat robotic and uncurtious. No matter I was booked and ready to dust the cobwebs from my balls! Watch out world here I come!

The boot camp was being held at the Express Holiday Inn in Old Street (east London) As there was only a three hour break between the end of each day's seminar and meeting for the 'in field' I thought it would be best to book a room in the same hotel especially since I thought we would be frequenting that area at night. A word of warning about the hotel. There was no food whatsoever! In fact I actually started to look like a kebab! The staff were very friendly but all in all I could have got somewhere a lot better for less money. It was however convenient.

I was a little unsure of who to expect the other students would be like. After a conversation with a friend I thought they may have fallen into three categories.

1) Regular Joes that just need a bit of a kick up the ass (people like me)
2) Very very shy people
3) 50 year old men that still live with their mum
4) 50 - 60 year old men who were millionaires

I was amazed that everyone one seemed to be pretty normal! Expectations mean shit!

As I opened the door with a massive sign on it saying ' LOVE SYSTEMS', which was visible to the entire hotel, it’s fair to say that my heart was pounding! The first guy that stood out and introduced himself was 'Ian Wright' errr I mean 'V'. ''Hello mate! I'm V! What’s your sticking point?" "To be honest dude I don't even know what a sticking point is" "You will by the end of the weekend dude" he said with a warm smile. V was a really nice guy, very knowledgeable and very personable. I later found out that he was pretty much the right hand man to 'Sheriff', who ran day one and three of the seminar and all the logistics in-between.

Sheriff was also a nice guy. In fact of all the 12 or 13 instructors, that were there at different points of the day and night, I cannot thing of one that I had the slightest feeling of contempt for or any that gave off a 'big headed' or 'cocky' approach whilst delivering their specific subject matter during the seminars.

It should be pointed out that the structure and some of the psychology behind the 'Mystery Method' was a lot to take in. These guys really go into depth about why things happen and exactly what’s going on every step of the way and so it’s easy to get lost. Be prepared to drink lots of coffee and redbull. That’s not to say that the Seminar was not fun! There were countless times everybody cracked up!

Day one, between the students, felt a bit like everyone sniffing each others bums. Students were socialising although everyone was a little introverted, myself included. This was completely different the next day after a night in the field. At the seminar and at the infield pre-meet in the club we were instructed to use the opening lines we had learned during the day. We were told that day one in field was nothing more than just opening as many girls as possible; even if that was asking 'Do you know where the toilet is?' Me and another couple of guys were instructed to go with a guy called 5pointZero. Normally I would consider myself to be pretty confident. You should meet this guy! The attitude of this guy is one thing I would like! My only critism and its not really a critism is that he was so good and so confident that it was making me feel less confident and more self conscious. This was evident in the metamorphosis of 'Approach anxiety'. I muscled through. In fact if it has been true about how many times I asked where the toilet was I probably could have filled a petrol tanker!!

During the night instructors would rotate and I found myself paired with a guy hmmm can't remember his handle but if we call him 'Sheriff younger brother' people will know who I am talking about. He was a yank. He still had the confidence about him that 5pointZero had but seemed to deliver it like he was stoned. My confidence grew a little and things started to improve. Soon as I did well once I was hungry for more. For some reason all I could hear in my head was something 'V' had said on the first day of the seminar 'Lets face it we all like porn....and believe me I have seen some nasty shit!' The night ended with two number closes and a facebook! I was chuffed!

On day two the seminar was led by Mr.M. This was a guy who was clearly a leader in the field. This guy really knew his shit. At points it was a little frustrating as there was so much theory and not enough materials / routines although at the end some practical lines were delivered that would prove invaluable for the second night in the field! Mr.M went into a lot more detail about the underlying complexity of mystery method specifically concerning attraction. You really have to concentrate hard (nothing to do with him) just because it was all very scientific. On entering the taxi to take us to the venue, which was the second night, I had forgotten everything! What the fuck?!

"Listen to me mate if your gonna do this you gotta stay sober"! V said after watching me do my third shot! I was obviously a little nervous. I won't go into the detail of the night but needless to say that everything I had learnt over the past two days spewed out of my mouth with the beauty of a bouquet of flowers.......

At this point I would like to lay claim to my first contribution to the community! This can be said when a girl spills a drink over herself, someone spills one over her or if really confident a direct approach after she has come inside from the rain. My situation was that she was laughing so hard at all my attraction lines (thanks Mr.M) That she turned round and said....

"Your so funny I think I’m gonna piss my pants!"

My response........

"To be honest I was expecting to get you wet tonight but just not this soon!"

It went down a fucking storm and I have no idea where it came from!!

Anyway back to review.......

Day three was about comfort and am happy to say was a much more routine based lecture. Some excellent examples of what to say and when to say it. Priceless! I particularly found some of 5pointZeros lines absolute genius!

A nice touch was that after day three had finished we were invited to have dinner in the Italian over the road with all the instructors. There was no teacher pupil attitude throughout the entire weekend and felt very much (maybe naively?) that these people were or would be my friends.

In summary the boot camp was worth EVERY penny. My experience was that everything just seemed to come together and you suddenly realise how much you had learnt. All four of the 'love systems' instructors (Sheriff, V, 5pointZero and Mr.M) were first class and I consider myself extremely lucky, especially with Sherriff at the helm! If this was Amazon it would be getting 5 stars!