What's up guys!

So my friend and I that are in the game went to the mall, out of area and we wanted get our AA out of the way. Now mind that this is our first time officially "Sarging" but I though it was pretty successful in regards to going starting from nothing to something. I started out by warming up on a 1 set by asking directions and my friend tried to open a two set with an opinion opener without putting a time constraint so we know what we did there being that it did fail. Then we go about just opening a few more sets with general questions. My problem is that I know my material and I had openers under my belt but the fact is I didnt open with them. I did have a hb9 isreali girl give a few iois and the end of our sarge but I feel as though our first problem was we didnt stick to our materials and secondly our AA grew on us at the end of the set when we was about to approach a few sets we just backed off. I definitely feel more accustomed to being in field What is you guys advice on tackling these problems?

Fuck all that using canned routines and shit...

Have them in the back of your mind incase you absolutely need them... sure.

But focus on the interaction.

You now have gone out. You now have experienced opening a set. You now have held a conversation with girls. You hopefully were able to understand what was happening in the interaction so you now have references to use during your next interactions.

Small victories dude. You are making progress. Nobody said this was going to be easy... and if they did, they were lying to you.

My definite sticking point is what to say after the opener because usually the girl is still wondering, " What is this guy trying to do" and you can see it in her eyes. I will say I am a bit shaky on the first couple sets, but I understand that once I frequently approach AA will definitely be a lot easier to deal with. So my next question is what should I focus on while I'm just really getting infield now and like the post above stated I should start being able to break down the interaction. Secondly, I have my canned material to use if the interaction's momentum is getting slack but I want to avoid asking a million questions and use statements but I find it hard to grasp that concept, any solutions??