Hey guys,

I'm new to this forum and the pickup community in general but I've been reading and watching a lot for the past 3-4 weeks. I've started reading Neil Strauss' book The Game and I've watched one Speed Seduction seminar so far. I really enjoy the almost scientific approach to pickup this community takes.

So for my first report I'll describe some of the events for the past 2 months up until just under an hour ago.

Although I was highly skeptical at first, I decided to give it a try after some friends told me about The Game. This was mainly the result of my realizing I had lost every bit of social skill I'd ever had during this year at the university. I couldn't even form correct grammatical sentences (also I took some legal drugs to keep myself focused that allegedly didn't have any side effects but which I believe have contributed a lot to my situation). Anyway, I realized I was in really deep shit since I had to even go as far as rehearsing stories I had told many times before.

I recovered a bit and I had to go back to my home country (I study in the UK). I decided to get some social interaction with girls so I went out with an HB7 from my home country that also studies at the same university in the UK. We had never really talked before, so I was surprised she even agreed. However, we seemed to click and I saw her a second time and kiss-closed. Unfortunately, I was leaving for the UK again the day after and we could not see each other for a month and a half but agreed we should. At this point I did not know anything about PUAs.

We kept in touch and talked almost every day but all attraction waned (remember, my social skills had hit rock bottom). I was really boring. I couldn't think of anything else to say apart from describing clumsily what I've been studying. After I came back to my home country again I wanted to see her but she came WITH HER FRIENDS. Nothing really happened and I got a "let's be friends" 10-paragraph bullshit message on facebook. It was long because we'd been planning a trip while I was away up until we went out again with her friends, and she wrote me an essay explaining while that was not a good idea. I didn't respond.

While I was in the UK I went on a trip and met an HB7 asian PhD student. I took her facebook and then her number. We went out and by the end of the night she was leaning on my shoulder and trying to hold my hand. That was before I got rejected and I had decided to remain faithful (nice guy to the limit) so I didn't f-close or even kiss-close. By this point I had watched Speed Seduction and tried, crudely, to get her to play the game where she describes the place she likes to go when she wants to relax and have me join her. I think she liked me anyway so I don't attribute what happened after that to the technique.

Before I used to worry a lot about getting more intimate with girls which I couldn't see because I study abroad. I decided to adopt an "I don't give a fuck" attitude after the rejection and today I kiss-closed a 17yo HB7 that I'd gone out with before. Again, I think she just liked me. She knows I'm leaving in a week and I want to f-close but I'm not sure how I should proceed.

For both kiss-closes I used the following routine: after a walk and some general convo i sit her on a bench in a park somewhere, I hug her and kiss her lightly on her hair and if they respond well (they did) I say "I want to kiss you". The thing is I quickly forget about any PUA material and revert to my AFC thinking. Even though we were making out I don't know how to get more intimate verbally and just continue the general conversation. This is Problem #1. After I got home I waited a while and texted her "I can still smell you on me" but she hasn't responded.

Problem #2 is that I get a lot of AA. I'm working on approaching strangers but I'm still only asking for directions. A couple of days ago I started a conversation with an HB6 but some granny sat between us and the conversation stopped. No regrets about that.

Since this is a really long post I'll end it here. I hope to receive suggestions on any part of my story so far. I'm also happy to elaborate if it is needed, I'm still new to field reports.