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Wren · #1 06-17-2009, 06:10 PM

SUMMARY
The following one-line summary has the Tenmagnet Seal of Approval(TM):
"This bootcamp will make your balls drop... again."

Results: Had a whirlwind beachside romance with the waitress at a late-night sushi restaurant. I almost missed my flight home. It was like a movie.
My Background: I've opened some, learned bits, tried a few things. Not beginner, but not quite intermediate.

Pros:

Learned a ton of practical advice that I could immediately apply to my game.
The instructors were cool, interesting people who answered all of our questions well and really knew how to teach.
Had a great time (sounds corny but the time of my life, no shit).
Built friendships with other trainees, who turned out to be really cool dudes from all over the world.

Cons:

Could have used more individualized attention in-field. To be fair, the venues were massive and the class size was maxed out.
During one seminar Tenmagnet had to step out for an emergency and we would have been left hanging for an hour, but Cajun gave us some sweet bonus material to make up for it while he was out.

THE FULL STORY
Pre-bootcamp I went out with a couple of guys the night before. I day-game opened a beautiful girl but got a fake number. I told one of my wingmen later, "That girl was a 10."
He said "She's a 7. Welcome to Miami bro."

Seminar Day 1
I walked in with total "Beginner's Mind" for this. I pledged to myself I would use only what they taught me on this workshop.

I got a solid first impression of the instructors. Seeing Cajun in person makes it very clear - the man has presence. I learned so much just from watching him speak. Tenmagnet is a hilarious guy, also with a commanding presence, with a talent for effective teaching. He handled difficult questions with aplomb. Biskit's segment on Visualization (based on his sports studies) helped me out big-time with my inner game. Many times they distilled complex concepts from Magic Bullets to their practical essence. In other words, they made shit make sense.

By the end of Seminar Day 1, my brain was spinning with so much information, I said to myself "fuck studying" and just hung out with my fellow trainees until go-time. Why? Because of Cajun's sage advice: "Trust your brain." I did this for the rest of the bootcamp and it paid dividends.

In-field Night 1
We get to the venue and prep. Cajun casually looks around the circle of trainees and says "Who wants first?"
"ME!"
So squad leader sends me in as point man. Objective: seated cougar 2-set at the bar. As I'm walking I'm thinking Fuck, I only get one shot. This is the PUA 8 Mile. I gotta make my boys PROUD!

I go in guns blazing. Open. Transition. Qualify. Then a leap of faith. We had no training past Qualification yet.
I vibe and chill and Asian cougar hands me her number saying "I'm only in town for tonight" (which the guys later tell me means - she wants to fuck). Holy shit.
I DID IT!
I walk back and Cajun says "You did good, how you feeling?"
"I almost shit my pants!"

In that moment I discovered what AA really is. Energy. It's like a valve under high pressure. Your energy builds up and it starts to leak out as nerves. When you just let go and release that valve by opening your first sets, the nerves vanish and that energy fuels the rest of your night.

Anyway that night I beheld the PUA Voltron of wingdom. Guys were swooping in sets, isolating, positioning... it was a fucking chess match. The rest of the night I opened constantly, leading Cajun to declare the next day, "He's a machine!"

There was no demo per se, but I did see Cajun pluck a hot Russian babe from an angry dude (turns out it was her older brother!), and I saw Mitch (an up-and-coming instructor) pick up a gorgeous Greek babe after the Penguins won the Stanley Cup (WOOO!!). I also winged Cajun on a two-set and blew myself out of it with a terrible compliment (Never tell a girl she looks like Helen Hunt. Even Cajun, M.D. couldn't save that from flatlining). Despite this, he had both girls fawning all over him within seconds.

(Note to Cajun: I didn't know you guys had some native background too. When you told me about your roots I was impressed - some natives don't care about their past and it's tragic. Props)

Seminar Day 2
We went a little further in the model. Qualification and Comfort. Tenmagnet dispelled common dating myths with hilarious examples. Here we learned Cajun's priceless questions game.

In-Field Night 2
Our boys huddle up to prep for Round 2. Tenmagnet enters a monster 8-set to get things rolling. I join in and open an Italian cutie. I'm gaming her and Tenmagnet says LOCK IN so I set my girl down on a bench nearby. Her friends are not letting me isolate. I try to win them over but they're having none of it.
Just then I look over and Tenmagnet is in set. Biskit comes in to wing. Wingman 3 swoops in. Wingmen 4, 5, 6, and 7 - Holy shit the whole bootcamp is here! My boys are the fucking Spartans, those chicks are the Persians and they are getting FUCKED! I'm King Leonidas at the front lines screaming
"Tonight we dine in VAGINA!"
I'm in for an hour. After I run Cajun's questions game she tells me, "I want to fuck you so bad" but her friends aren't letting us move! It turns out she had a boyfriend back home and her friends had her on lockdown the whole trip. Lost it on a technical.

Afterwards I opened a couple more sets and Biskit walked up and said "OK, you got opening down. Now try to stay in those sets for as long as you can." I went direct on a Swedish babe and her little blonde friend. After a while my wingman came in and isolated the friend. Just then Biskit walked by and said LOCK IN so I sat her down nearby. The chairs made kino tough though and without kino I quickly got blown out. It didn't matter though, because I held out for 20 minutes - long enough for my boy to get blondie's number!

Seminar Day 3
The rest was late game stuff - dating, seduction, etc. In the segment on phone game Tenmagnet had us in stitches showing how most guys fuck up. A minor snafu led to Cajun giving us some bonus material to make up for it, which was nice.

Post-bootcamp
That night I went out with my wingman and we ended up at a dive, I opened lots but met few quality sets. I felt proud of my boy (I winged him until he got a gorgeous Venezuelan girl's number) but I had to redeem myself. Lucky me - my boy wanted some sushi.

We ended up at a late-night sushi restaurant where I met a cute Japanese girl waiting our table. Thank goodness for Cajun's bonus Hired Gun tips... She ended up with me at the beach the next day and later, in my other wingman's hotel room (THANKS DUDE I OWE YOU)... the whole pickup I was walking a tightrope... but that's another story.

All I can say is, the whole bootcamp was worth it, just for that moment...
Laying back on the shore, surf lapping at our feet, under the umbrella, laughing, talking.

Tenmagnet · #2 06-20-2009, 09:31 AM

Wren! You did really good this weekend, you have the right attitude and energy to succeed. Thanks a lot for the review and good luck! I'd love to hear how things are going in a few months too!

Gabo101 · #3 06-23-2009, 11:06 PM

I also did the bootcamp this past weekend in Miami with Cajun and Tenmagnet and the review is a little long so bear with me. I had read Magic Bullets and a lot of reviews and information about these guys and I was looking forward to seeing what they could do. When I saw them for the first time I could immediately see why women are drawn to them.

Personally, I had rarely ever tried cold approaches. I didn't consider myself bad with women but all my girlfriends had come from social circles. I was in for quite a ride.

I had heard that the class was sold out and I knew that they were probably sending more instructors to help out. So aside from the leads, I immediately recognized Biskit and Mitch (if you don’t know Mitch, look at the Keys to the VIP episode where Cajun appears). My impressions of each one:

Tenmagnet: I hadn’t read too much about him before but he was an awesome teacher. During the seminar portion he gave each student personalized attention, had an answer for every question that we threw at him and he was incredible in the field. He comes across as the cool surfer dude that is always kicked back and relaxed but at the same time has very high energy.

Cajun: Super cool guy, comes across like he doesn’t give a sh!t about anything people think of him and is fearless in the field. Great teacher in the seminar and in the field. He is a master in body language and voice tonality and I learnt so much just by trying to mirror what he was doing.

Biskit: A total contrast in personality to the rest of the instructors. Very calm, low energy and observant. I got to work with him on the second field night and he was very analytical of every interaction and it helped out a lot. I was curious to see how good he was in the field and he is just as incredible as the rest of the guys. It was an eye opener to see that the material is just the building block upon which you develop your own style. One thing that I though was cool was that he said that he saw himself in us 2 years ago and that it was great to watch us get better.

Mitch: Being Cajuns cousin, his personality is similar. He is very high energy and knows the concepts well. At one point of the first night I had a lot of approach anxiety. He coached me and pushed me into a set, I got blown out, and immediately brushed it off and sent me into a harder set that was dancing, which turned into the best one of the night. Very insightful, I would tell him what happened and he told me exactly what went wrong. Then, before you knew it he kicked me into the next set.

As far as the seminar portion, it is very well structured. They teach the theory of the first parts of the interactions (opening, transition, attraction) the first day and then go into the infield with the goal of mastering that first. I got stuck in set many times the first day because we hadn’t gone further in class so the next day I was eager to learn the rest of the material. Second day is qualification and comfort and the third day is seduction, identity and some bonus stuff.

Having read Magic Bullets I was following along pretty well but they have so much more information that simply isn’t in the book. They taught us stuff that is exclusive to bootcamp students. In fact, Cajun gave us his personal best routine that when he was explaining it I was thinking “holy shit this is genius”. I wasn’t able to try it out this weekend but the one student that did said the girl told him she wanted to fuck him right there. Yes, it’s that good and I actually wished they stopped doing these bootcamps so nobody else would learn it haha.

As far as the infield portion of the bootcamp, it is simply amazing and it’s really were the value for the seminars is. By the end of the second day all the students had been able to get a few phone numbers and a few got some kiss closes. Before my first open I was freaking out but after I did one it just got easier and easier. I think I’ve never had so much fun, talked to so many women and been so fucking scared in one weekend before. They divided us into two groups and half went with Cajun and Mitch, and the others with Tenmagnet and Biskit. On the next day we swapped instructors.

I can’t write what happened in every set because this would turn into a book but during the weekend I think I opened around 12 sets and winged countless others. Most of them went really well and I got plenty of numbers, screwed up a kiss close (Cajun pointed this out, I didn’t even know what had happened at the time) and on the very last set I had the girl totally into me and could have pushed it further but they called us in to debrief. This weekend was about learning as much as possible and I wanted to get as much information as I could from the instructors.

At one point, Cajun approached a two set of a girl and a guy which turned out to be brother and sister. He was able isolate the girl, come back and be heavy into kino in front of her brother and have them both laughing and loving it.

Some of the highlights of the second night include a big set of about 8 girls that Tenmagnet opened. A student came in and tried to isolate his target but he wasn’t having any luck. Then, little by little, instructors and students winged him and we somehow managed to move them all. I noticed while I was talking to one of the girls that each girl was with one of the guys and I was totally blown away. I don’t know how we pulled that off which such clinical precision.

I didn’t get blown out to much but I had a pair of epic ones on the second night that I actually learnt the most from. On the first one I opened a set from the previous night with the same line that I had opened before (I talked to a lot of girls, I didn’t remember them until it was to late haha). Bizkit was right there afterwards and told me exactly what I should have done in that situation. The funny thing is that it wasn’t a big deal, I actually enjoyed that experience and we were laughing about it the next day. I thought, hey this is probably as bad as it will ever get and it was actually entertaining!

The next one was a set Tenmagnet sent me into which he mentioned beforehand that he thought it would be a very hard group because they had seen us looking and they had guys hitting on them already. I went in and got terrible attitude from one of the girls. Tenmagnet watched everything and broke everything down very quickly and explained how I should have acted and bam, next set.

On Sunday night, to keep practicing, I went out with a fellow student and later we were having sushi and he starts flirting with the waitress. I noticed he mentioned this in the review above but what was cool and entertaining about this is that, since we had time to discuss what was going on while she came and went, we could actually watch the interaction progress in slow motion. We noticed the attraction, we knew exactly when he had to qualify and when to do some comfort. I actually left for the restroom to give him a window to do a quick comfort routing with some one on one time. Then he went for a number, got it very easily and had it not been for his flight he would have f-closed the following afternoon. He almost missed his flight haha.

I mention this because neither him nor I had ever been able to get a number from a cute waitress and it was a great example of how far we progressed over the weekend.

I didn’t come out of this weekend as a master pickup artist but I made tremendous progress and I’m extremely confident that I have all the necessary knowledge to get better very quickly. I made friends with like minded people and now we have a group of guys with which I’ve been practicing and giving each other feedback.

To anybody that has doubts about taking a bootcamp, I can tell you that you get your moneys worth and a lot more. No book or video can compare to actually having an instructor coaching you through sets and giving you feedback.

UPDATE
I was actually waiting to try out Cajun’s routine before posting this review to make sure I had something to back up my claim with. It’s been a little over a week since I took the bootcamp and I just had a date and tried it out. I can now I confirm that it really does work very well. It’s very powerful. I got through it and the kiss came very easily. I might have been able to go further later on but we were dropping something off to her car and it was freaking getting towed! Haha, talk about bad luck. That kind of killed the mood a little but it went great and we are going to see each other again in a few days.

Cajun · #4 06-24-2009, 07:41 AM

Thanks a lot for the reviews guys, you both did awesome and im looking forward to your emails and finding out how well you're both progressing in the future.