| Yes dude, and as long is your mentality is right, it can work wonders. I actually posted just a couple of weeks ago about me and ValleyPlaya getting out and creating challenges to open like shit. Long story short, the night ended with me picking a set of 6 girls at a table for ValleyPlaya to open, and I got to choose what opener he used. Since he's one of my best friends, I did what any dude would do...I made his opener as terrible as possible. His instructions were to go up to this 6-set, have completely shit body language, bad tonality muttering out the words "Hey does anyone here have herpes? Because if so, then we'll be a perfect match."
I watched him make the open and was pretty confident he could pull it off (we go out quite a bit). I'm watching from a distance, and after 20 seconds of him approaching the girls go from the most awkward stares, to at least listening. After 2 minutes they're leaning in. After 5 minutes I decide to go grab a drink and open another set because I figure he'll be a while (I didn't go in to help him since this six-set was the same set VP had challenged me to earlier that night that I purposely bombed at to get warmed up.)
I've actually watched video's of Tyler Durden (Owen) who was trying to show what bad AFC's do when they're trying too hard in the club. It was infield footage of him trying SO hard to fail with girls at the club (really funny to watch too). He was acting out game on these babes that was literally SO painful to watch. However, some of them were actually interested. Like some of them could tell that he was so fucking confident, and that he didn't care what anyone thought of him, and they found that attractive. If you can "get caught" trying to be lame, it actually makes you look cool and confident.
So long story short, if you're new to the game, don't bother TRYING to be awkward (because you already are...sorry). If you've gotten to the point where you're comfortable as can be in social situations, then yes, I encourage you to make the occasional opener as awkward as possible.
Happy sarging dude,
T.R.
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