Out of curiousity where are the best places for striking up conversations?
Are parks better than shopping centres or is the street the best place to start. Today I would like to push myself into having 5 seperate conversations! I plan doing this alone as my wings are busy and it would be good to destroy AA by myself!
Much appreciated,
Tav

The best places are anywhere you can go that is considered a "target rich" environment. The more people, sets, and HBs that are around, the less wandering and more approaches you can tackle in a short amount of time. Don't limit yourself to 5 approaches. Try to do as many as you can everyday and keep track of how many you are doing. AA is very common for newbies and never fully disappears, but it will lessen with more approaches. If an approach works, remember why it did. When you get blown out, who cares, try and figure out why you did and make adjustments for the next one.

I realised something today. Normally I don't consider myself that shy or socially handicaped. In fact I am friendly and easy going with people. I like many others enjoy a chat with the old stranger here or there. So I asked myself over the past 2 days why I am suffering AA. I thought it might be a lack of knowledge thing but that can't be. I can speak so thats proof that it's not that. Then I thought it was the idea of having to talk to someone. It wasn't that either.

Today I realised why I am having the approach fear that I have talked about. Simply it is because I dislike not having someone to back me up. A wingman I mean. However I do know of 2 guys from Cork who wish to sarge but have yet to meet them as we're all busy with college and work and shit. Anyway my fear is doing this alone. I feel alone when doing this whole approach thing. It's not the idea of talking to a girl that scares me, but rather the idea of others looking at me quizically and wondering 'what's he upto'. So you know what I just need my wings or I just need to stop thinking about what other people are thinking because its only me who is thinking what I think those people are thinking if you get me. With that I am gonna do as you say Sub-Zero and approach as many sets as possible cause odds are even if things go bad I'll never see those girls again.

Appreciate your advice, thanks man
Talk soon,
Tav