The
Love Systems SuperConference in Vegas was a really exceptional experience. Considering that I only first started reading
Magic Bullets on my flight over from Paris then to say I was a newbie to all this material would be a bit of an understatement!
My experiences of the weekend (Gold Level) break down into five main sections: The
seminars themselves (broken down into individual
seminars below); the first fieldwork night; the second fieldwork night; and general admin.
THE SEMINARS
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HEAD START (Extra component) on Thursday evening with
The Don and
Mr M: This was great four-hour session that got the small number who attended really thinking about many of the concepts to be covered in more detail over the coming up weekend. Both the instructors are seriously switched-on and intelligent people and as an introduction to the
Love Systems staff it was an impressive start. It was a pity that so much info had to be rushed through in such little time but it definitely got my head in the right place before the main event kicked off. Seemed a bit pricey though – 4 hours for $500 vs 3 days for $950...]
Note: The dual track programme did indeed allow a huge amount of material to be crammed into a three day conference but it was still a huge pity to sometimes be forced to miss out on a
seminar or too.
Inner Game (Sinn)
Having had
Savoy run his mini-introductory session our first real experience of the weekend was hearing
Sinn talk about
inner game. What he spoke about absolutely blew me away: not in terms of content as I’m already pretty aware of much of what he spoke about but more that I sitting in front of someone so highly intelligent and such a versatile speaker. NOT what I was expecting!
My last two years have been ones of self-development and learning so many of the books and teachings he referred to were familiar. However, the way in which
Love Systems decided to run this
seminar first really set the tone for the rest of my weekend – that these tools and techniques are not just about getting laid but about facilitating one in maximising one’s connections with others. What those connections themselves may be is your choice but the more sorted and grounded one is oneself then the easier it is, in my experience, to draw the right people to you.
Sinn was epitomising this.
He mentioned many good books to read (e.g.
The Power of Now), developmental systems (e.g. Tony Robbins’ NLP work, Self Actualisation, David D’s On Being a Man programme) and concepts about how we view ourselves and our relationship to the world around us. I would STRONGLY recommend everyone interested in their game to learn more about themselves: What are you passions in life? What would you do if you knew you had only a week to live? What would be your ideal job, ignoring money, promotion or career requirements? With regards to our truly accepting ourselves as men and being initiated into manhood then I would strongly recommend people attend one of the Mankind Project weekends (New Warrior Training Adventure).
Opening Exercises (My primary instructor = Soul)
This session was run with a host of instructors each taking on six or so guys to run them through their openers. I immediately felt a strong affinity towards
Soul – in terms of his relaxed and down-to-earth style being backed up by being very switched on and well-grounded. We had been recommended to practice our openers with one of six indirect openers provided in the weekend documentation so I dropped my normal direct style and trialled the “What do you think of women with tattoos line?” To my surprise I found it worked really well and just how easily I could base the story around true facts about my family and friends. I am pretty sure that the more one’s lines can be grounded in reality then the more positive one’s non verbal communication will be.
Top learning point from this
seminar: “Assume that she DOES want to talk to you.”
Advanced Attraction: Confidence and Humour (Cajun)
A good breakdown of how one’s confidence relates to: How you approach, how you react and how you talk (content). He then followed it on with some discussion about
humour. Looking back on it I would probably have learnt more in the breakout room session instead.
Top learning point: Talk to women as if you have already slept with them and you were really good.
Improv and Conversation Skills (Badboy & Cortez)
This
seminar mainly revolved around
direct game and how one should operate when in a bar. Some of the direct
kino moves that
Badboy showed were absolutely awesome. “Change your belief system...” “The five emotions you must raise in her: Make her feel relaxed, then create
attraction, build trust,
kino, connection/
soul mate.” I am pretty certain that one’s success with such moves comes down completely to one’s attitude before walking into a set. His confidence and way of presenting himself was truly inspirational!
Out of all the instructors I think it was probably
Badboy who I most frequently saw surrounded by a group of attendees, outside the
seminar rooms, running through more routines and manoeuvres. Then there was also how many times his talks went past their deadline and it all really just goes to show that this guy loves to teach others!
Social Anxiety (Brad P)
I imagine that we have all had to deal with social
anxiety at times. The most useful part of this talk was the hand-out of 18 challenges to do to reduce one’s social
anxiety. These ranged from making eye contact with three strangers to moonwalking around a group of strangers to telling a complete random your deepest, darkest secret. I could have pretty easily grabbed the handout, skipped this
seminar and attended whatever else was on. This isn’t a snub of
BradP but more an awareness that social
anxiety isn’t my biggest hurdle in this game. My self-set challenge is to do the same thing as this guy, within the next month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqh9...eature=related Real World Rapport and Romantic Empathy (Daniel Johnson of Pickup 101)
“Is it possible to know a woman better than she knows herself?” I found his demeanour and angle upon meeting women interesting; quiet, unassuming and could even be seen as shy. As he admitted himself he used to be hugely shy but now has this relatively quiet but sure of himself way of presenting himself that worked really well when explaining about
female psychology, rapport, romantic empathy and the such-like. A good session and it was a little unfortunate that the timings got all screwed up around his talk and he wasn’t given his full time allocation. But then what he did cover could have been covered with as much effect and in less time so maybe that was a good thing...
Qualification (Mr M)
Mr M flew through a collection of ground-breaking material at a hell of a pace. I could have listened to him talk about this subject for three times as long as he had and I’m pretty sure that he would have happily spoken about it for that long as well! The thoughts and insights he has had during his experiences were hugely inspirational. The more cerebral side of how to present and work things for one’s own benefit really interest me. The big learning point from this talk was the grounding of your statements to something that she has said or done... e.g. “If really like how you are so independent and left your friends like that earlier and even if I wasn’t hitting on you right now I’d still love to be your friend.” (Not sure who first came up with this line and I’m pretty sure that
Mr M credited someone with it.)
Female Psychology (Savoy)
Understanding the female mind has to be the most important way for any of us to improve our success with women; hence this
seminar by
Savoy was a pretty critical one. He definitely helped me learn about aspects such as: the difference between macro and micro rules, “change her mood not her mind”, where social success comes from, “it doesn’t count”, the role of men and sexual self-image.
Savoy spoke well, had pretty clear lines of thought and I’m pretty sure that everyone in the audience learnt many new things during this talk.
Carlos Xuma
If I had to sum his talk up in one of the lines from it then it would have to be this: “Project yourself from the inside out rather than trying to get back from pickup guy to normal guy.” Carlos takes the school of thought of self-awareness and development to much higher levels. He is someone deeply aware of his thoughts and actions and the effects they may have upon others. I found this talk inspiring, not so much from a pickup point of view but really in terms of just how many ways there are for us all to learn more about ourselves and the world around us (martial arts, meditation, sales techniques, breathing exercises, rituals).
Fashion (Brad P)
My fashion sense is pretty diabolical so I was delighted to have my thinking prompted by this
seminar.
Brad P spoke well and I felt a strong affinity for the logic behind how people can develop their fashion sense. Five of the students had attended one of his fashion
seminars before and I was slightly disappointed to only feel that two of them really had a style that I saw as making them stand out in some way. I loved how
Brad P broke down the three different ways to upgrade your look: (1) Normal well-dressed, (2) Sexy stereotyping (find a sexy role model and copy exactly what they are wearing), and (3) Pushing the limits.
Cortez
Badboy’s sidekick (at least that was how Cortex seemed to be during the weekend) was knowledgeable and interesting to hear. About half of his
seminar were filled with pretty dull questions of peoples’ regarding
direct game (I love
direct game but god do some students ask the most pointless and mind-numbingly trivial questions at times...). This was then followed by a great summary of his thoughts about different countries around the world from a
PUA POV. Looking back on it I would much rather have attended whatever other talk was on at this time but this wasn’t so much
Cortez’s fault as the fault of the moronic questions of some of his audience.
Same Night Lays (Sinn)
This question and answer session again highlighted just how knowledgeable
Sinn is at all this and how well he can explain things to others. He just sat there on a table at the front and off-the-bat answered everyone’s questions expertly and succinctly. The realisations from this talk for me revolved around: Choosing the right venue for SNLs; setting the frame right; NEVER judging the girl for her actions; don’t got too far into
comfort
The three critical questions to have covered with a potential
SNL are: “What’s on the agenda for later?”, “How did you get here?”, and “What time has she got to get up in the morning?”. Once those have been covered then you know how likely it is to happen or not...
Day Game (Sinn)
I loved this talk as this is my forte. Direct
day game is to me the way ahead as my great desire in life is to meet people who I connect with on a much deeper level. Hence, trawling around bars and clubs is great for a quick shag but unlikely to lead to much deeper. Trawling around my favourite cafes is a completely different matter! The best learning points from this
seminar were: During the day “never use more
kino that you would use with your boss”,
Sinn’s thoughts on
phone game was also really useful stuff, especially as I missed all the other
text and phone game seminars.
Relationship Management (Sheriff)
This was an excellent collection of thoughts, techniques and realisations about how to work with and around the female mind when in a relationship. Suggestions such as setting small games to work your lady through a wide range of emotions were funny to hear but also powerful when one thinks about the positive impact they can have.
Sheriff is a calm and collected guy who I loved to listen too.
Overall impression of the seminar component of the weekend.
The
seminars covered pretty much every aspect of gaming women and I felt that the silver value for money was exceptional. $950 for three days of
seminars with the instructors often around between sessions to answer your questions as well was such a great deal. The only pity was it being based in the Sahara (pretty crappy venue with terrible food) and having the two
seminar rooms based a fair walk from each other. However, in a strange way the distance of the rooms from each other probably helped the speakers have a better audience as attendees were much less likely to pop back and forth between the two rooms than if they had been right next to each other.
I was genuinely shocked by how articulate and knowledgeable the instructors were. I came along to the conference rather expecting a bunch of reformed nerds who were now expounding all these ideas and strategies to use. Instead I found myself being taught by a collection of inspiring individuals – and the most inspiring of them inspired me not because of their success with women but because the way in which they are within themselves. Some of the attendees were at much earlier stages of their personal development and hence this is why I think it so important for people to learn about themselves at the same time (or preferably before) developing the art of picking up women.
Fieldwork Night One:
My group headed out to the Hard Rock Hotel and this is were Moxie launched his three students into their first sets of the evening. With each of us he hovered around just long enough to know that the opener had worked and we were successfully into those sets, before moving on to launch the next student in. So we are walking along and he points out a four-set for me to approach. This is the first time in my life that I am going to run a cold approach, using an indirect opener and try to start a chat with some completely random people. I reeled back at his suggestion, thinking that a 4-Set is far too tough a start for someone! But he insisted and into it I went.... to find how well the opener worked, how receptive the people were and how easy some of this really is. Ok, so after three or four minutes I ran out of things to say and had to extract but I was buzzing from the exhilaration of having broken that initial hurdle.
The rest of the evening revolved (literally, around that damned circular bar!) run sets, meeting new people, getting one number and generally having a lot of new experiences.
The most useful part of this night was what I did when I got back to my hotel room. I spent just over two hours writing down all the details about each set: what worked, what didn’t work, what other lines I could have used, why didn’t I return to that girl later on and chase up a certain aspect...? The realisations that I had from each set and the evening overall were priceless. Over those 14 pages of notes I saw many of the patterns of my last ten years of dating. This weekend is meant to be the first step in me challenging and correcting those patterns so let it begin here and now.
Fieldwork Night Two:
Blair and our group of three grabbed a taxi to the MGM and on the way Blair was constantly running through all aspects of our game with us. “What’s your opener?” “And yours...?” “And yours...?” “Ok, so how are you all with
transitioning?” “How about building attractions; what routines do you use?” He was a non-stop questioning machine and this really helped me firm up some of my plans for the evening.
We hit Studio 54, jumped the VIP queue (to the huge annoyance of those people in the VIP queue!) and were led to our private table in the VIP area. It felt good to already have a higher status before even having to utter a word!
Blair was really exceptional over the evening: helping us in the taxi over there, spending the first 20-minutes in the club running through my game with me as I was shitting bricks at the time, then bringing loads of new groups of women into our circle for us to practice our routines on and finally at the end of the night managing to stop a group of three girls from stopping my target coming home with me... it really was quite something to see someone suddenly switch from cool, calm and conversing to this driven, sexual creature that swept women away! I got laid out of the night so I was happy! I’m not sure how many of his students got laid over the two nights (3? 4?) but I think that those numbers themselves stand testimony to him doing something pretty right with his students!
Fader had a very professional and aware way about him. I greatly appreciated his keenness, at the end of the night, for open and honest feedback about how the evening had progressed. Definitely someone I would learn a lot from and trust.
Admin
One bit of poor planning about the weekend was how many guys attended the first breakout room session, leading to there being a big shortage of chairs – not that this was really that important as we were pretty much immediately up on our feet and into routines. Just looked like a bit of a lack of fore-planning.
Having the weekend in the Sahara I am sure helped keep the costs down but it is a pretty dire place (proven by the response of women when they ask you where you’re staying). Somewhere with at least one place serving slightly healthy, or at least tasty, food would be nice in the
future.
Generally the weekend ran very well, with
seminars usually starting on time (a couple of major exceptions to that rule – certain instructors should be reined in a bit more in
future I would have thought). The silver level was DEFINITELY worth the money; the gold level much less so as for the extra cost you could afford to go to the
Superconference at the silver level & a separate
bootcamp. The one advantage of the gold level is the number of instructors with whom you head out into the field (i.e. the range of skills available to help you).
Thank you to all the instructors; my game is only just beginning and this was one hell of a way to start!
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I liked this program too just because these are exercises. You can cram everyone with a lot of theorie, but seeing everything in action and doing it yourself makes you learn this stuff much faster. 
I really thought I could solve my 
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