09/25/14
Im in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Went to a club where I was invited by a friend of mine who's BF celebrated birthday there.
Did drink that night due to the birthday party.
This is literally the starting out all over again, as I've had a rough time with depression the weeks before. But lets not get into that, its a different issue.
Point is, that I feel like starting from 0. I literally lost my skill, knowledge, intuitions that I had before.
So fuck it. Leave all the negativity behind and start over. I am so committed to getting this down, if starting over is what needs to be done, then I start all over.
I loaded myself with Julien wisdom before I left. This guy knows whats up.
On the way there I thought I better snap myself out of my head early, like im supposed to. So I took the cold action and approached two girls coming my way. Asked them for directions. Pushed myself to hold them a little bit longer, even though I saw that they wanted to keep moving. Asked them about what theyre doing and tried to bring out wittiness, until they said they wish me great fun, etc. and moved on.
So tap on my shoulder, acted against emotions with willpower.
Did the same with 2 other 2 sets. Great. More out of my head, higher energy now.
Entered the club, failed to open the first, as I should, but realized that and succeeded in approaching the second. Great!
That was a older but hot girl stting at the bar, looking aimlessly. Went in without thought and said "whats up?". From there I didnt know what else, "ran out of things to say" so to say ^^. Few seconds later the guy to her right turns out to be her company buying drinks. I eject on that. Its ok I guess. No need to crash and burn upon arrival. Time to have a good fun time in the first half. And I destroyed my self image becasue it was that kind of weird approach. So i realized the funniness and state went up.
Then second approach were girls I asked for direction outside. Talked to the one a minute about I was supposed to meet my friend here for the birthday party but shes obviously not here. Tried to be kind of non-caring, honest, self-ridicouling, self-image destroying by saying its humiliating to go somewhere and your friends dont show up without telling you. Response was ok. It made me care less, more fun, more free. Great!
Then found my friend. Shes a extremely hot fun girl. Spent the whole night around her and the birthday party, which were many big, fun, cool dudes (expected social circle of a hot girl). I didnt let that stiffle me (GREAT SHIT!) and shot the shit with my friend. Had amazing fun with her, which pumped my state more. She occasionally wanted to check on her BF, who was rocking that place, was everywhere, knew everyone, etc.
So when I was alone, back into game-focus, focused on standing there like a bitch, so approached whatever girl was in my vicinity. All approaches went kind of the same. Me walking up, saying "whats up" in hebrew and then trying to vibe, keep it fun and light, trying not to be in interview mode (which is hard for me somehow, except when im in state - when out of state i never know how to vibe when you approach a stranger). Except for one girl, who i approached and she was obviously interested in getting to know me. She was reinitiating (which is obviously a good sign) and I started vibing. The thing in this set was, that I really felt like starting from 0, becasue I couldnt tell anymore, if I should escalate now, get physical, take her hand and dance, is the window open now, or is it closed? I couldnt tell, even though just 1 month ago I was still rocking it in Barcelona. (sidenote: in between that day and barcelona was a depression that picked to pretty scary levels, but then leveld off quickly fortunately, but I know now how devastating that can be to game)
So I didnt really escalate. I "lead" her outside, but i didnt lead her by hand, which I definitely could have. (Got to do that) Outside we chatted on a bench, which I led her to sit on (Great!), vibed quite ok, BUT i felt the spinning plates falling because i wasnt physical, wasnt escalating, and vibed more in a friend to friend vibe. (MAN 2 WOMAN! Remember!)
Sure enough she LED ME into the club again and went off to her friends. [UPDATE: Damn I just remember that she said to me that her friends left her. probably the perfect invitation to take her outside, get some food, pull, etc. but I just said, oh thats not nie, cant you text them, ... OH MAAAAN ^^ i really have to get my game back together. grow some balls again.]
I think I remember (so weird that i lost my game knowledge) that I failed because i failed to escalate.
But beacuse I was focusing a lot on having fun, I was in a better state and definitely counted the whole interaction as a WIN! GreaT!
Back to my friend, having more fun. I saw that this club has amazing toilets (short way in the cabin, no cleaning staff, bigender --> perfect for toilet pulls, something i prided myself in having done a few

)
Approached a 3set of 2girls and 1 guy, 1 fatty and 1 hot girl, the hot girl was taken by the guy, so I stood with the fat girl. This set was kind of hard to hook because they gave the "whos that guy" look, but i managed to persevere and show them that Im cool. Great! So I hooked the fatty and talked to her, had some good fun, and sure enough i saw that she became attracted, so I had to wind myself out of it again. Less attention to her, more attention to my friend. Funfunfun admitting the ridicoulus situation, that i first hook the fatty and then try to get rid of her.
The other sets were all sets where I jumped in and tried not to think too much, but couldnt hook beyond "hey whats up, yes im german, my hebrew is not good, etc." so it always turned out that they felt uncomfortabe with me standing there and talkig to them. Well fuck it, appraoch = success, all i wanted. and the fact that im weird = funny, destroys self image. Great!
At around 3am I left the club. I have to admit i was tired from pushing myself and probably getting the somewhat indifferent, rejecting responses. But fuck that. I did everything right in the book of how to get good, I was out of my comfort zone and I had fun. GreaT! Its a muscle which needs to be built.
When I went outside I first thought of going home, but there are many sets on the street and I made myself stay and go back. Great! My willpower was burned out though, so i couldnt make myself approach anymore. Thats the situation where I need to admit that I need a wing, so we can push each other and make it fun, rather than a cruel task.
I said to myself, one more approach, just one more, then i can go home. Took me about 20mins, then I walked up behind on the probably hottest girl of the night wtih a ugly fatty. Turned out the ugly fatty acted as bodyguard for the hot one who didnt even react. Well my performance was defintiteyl nothing to talk about, but i did the approach. GREAT! Acted against my emotions. Awesome.
So first night out approaching again.
I have to get back in there now. I dont have time for more than 2 nights a week in Israel, but at least that.
I commit to writing field reports to every night, to rethink what happened, something ive never really done before. I want to get really good at this, not jsut the fantasy of it.