Hey mate. Your issue is that you're not having enough fun.
Example: You feel that the cube is try hard. Then why do you use it? You're not supposed to rehearse lines that you don't feel real to yourself because the girls can tell that from million miles away.
MM does work but it's too much trouble in my opinion to go by the textbook. MM has concepts which are awesome.
For example, that the interaction has three stages (attraction, comfort, seduction) is widely accepted. The only exception is when the girl is already aroused and you can skip A and C phases, but that takes massive calibration to notice, and is quite rare besides the dance floor anyway.
I don't usually neg on purpose. I'm just trying to keep up the flirty push-pull dynamics. This cat and mouse game that girls just love playing.
My point is: Don't take everything word by word from MM. Focus on the grand picture instead, and work out your own ways. It's nice to have a few routines if you somehow run out of things to say, just to be sure, but having a script all the way is just too robotic, it makes it extremely difficult to keep a fun vibe and very easy to blow yourself out.
As to your question about kino... 5 minutes is too much. You should start touching the girl as soon as it is possible. Here's what I like to do early on...
I notice a girl looks at me, or is bored, or is simply too hot to not open her. So I go over and throw in a little bantering line. Nothing too much or too offensive, just a little bit cocky. Immediately after I open, I take on a body language as if I'm just about to leave. Sometimes I might even turn my back to her, but I'm still looking at her smiling. I do this for a few seconds and then I turn back to her and throw in a light hearted compliment. Something I noticed on her. At this point my hand gestures are already close to her body, almost as if I were to touch her. Once I see that she's comfortable with my hands being close to her body I can tell that she is ready for me to touch her. This should not take more than a minute. I start touching her upper arm, her shoulders, and her upper back to move her around, or to emphasize my point. These touches don't last more than a few seconds and I stand relatively close to the girl so that I don't have to actually move in to touch her, that creeps most women out. Of course later on as I move through the different phases I would touch her elsewhere but that's just going with the vibe pretty much. I hope I could help a bit on how to start kino escalation.
Also, you opened a two set, and as it has been already mentioned, it's not easy to keep both girls entertained. When this happens, I game them equally. I try keeping the entire vibe fun and once they are comfortable with me I will soon leave to let them discuss about me. At this point I can only hope that they don't start fighting for me, hehe, and I usually come back with another guy or even better, a girl to the set. I then look at whether things changed and choose a target depending on that, and isolate her as soon as it is possible. I come back with another person because I can't just leave the other girl alone she will be bored to death, and her friend won't let that happen. Girls appreciate when they see you are socially intelligent.
A three or more set is harder in terms of keeping all of them entertained, but it's easier to isolate from them, because noone will be left alone, just mentioning this for you to keep in mind.
Good Luck on your sarges mate,
Peace,
In$tinct
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