I've been recommended to get some FR's going for the purpose of self analysis and development, so here I am.

A bit of background I suppose:

20 y.o. student in Sheffield. Read a lot of material back when I was 16-17, but never had the guts (or money) to try it out properly. Fast forward 3-4 years now and i'm at a stage where i'm pretty sick of having no control over women in my life. I wouldn't describe myself as bad looking at all (although I don't have height on my side - 5'6"), but I don't have anywhere near the success i'd love to have. Most other aspects of my life i'm perfectly happy with, I don't worry about money too much, i'm doing better than good at uni and i'm fit and healthy. Just women...

I finally decided to start giving this stuff a proper go to turn my love life around and hopefully there'll be some good progress in the weeks/months to come!

Day Game 23/9/12

Met up with my wing for the day. Another student at uni that is much better at all this than me. He probably made between 5-10 approaches in the 2 hours we hung out in town. I only made about 3-4 approaches in comparison.

He told me his main opener which was just basically rock, paper, scissors. Also gave me the 'where's the nearest beach' opener. I think the first one worked better as people could be completely bemused by someone asking for a beach in Sheffield.

All sets failed to get any further than the opener though unfortunately, a bit shit but hey. My wing managed to snag himself at least one number and some laughs, he'd definitely been doing this for a while!

I was primarily trying to improve my approach rate though (which is frankly abysmal). I get quite a lot of approach anxiety at the worst of times so i'm desperately trying to fight it. I was impressed with myself that I could do it, but I was still holding onto him to push me into set.

I think my delivery of the opener wasn't always on key too, so things obviously must have felt unnatural and the girls picked up on it. Definitely something I need to work on.

Night Game 28/9/12

Got in contact with another guy and decided to try it on for night game. Really cool guy and super friendly. I think it'd be hard for many people to say no to an approach from him as he definitely gives off all right vibes for pickup.

He'd decided to come out particularly because it was a swing music night at the Harley. Never been to one before so it was actually pretty cool. I learnt that I have no idea how to move my feet besides in a hip hop style!

The night started really slow, with like 3 sets or something in the entire place at 10 oclock. He pushed me into a set with the 'where's a cotton candy' machine opener. Wasn't particularly attracted to the girl and there was a guy, looked like they were on their first date or something. I didn't push the envelope and ejected after a little bit of small talk.

We decided to take a walk down West Street at about 12 and went to Vodka Revs, lots of people but music levels were through the roof so it was hard to talk to just a single person at a time.

He pushed me into a 2 set sat down with the floss opener. I couldn't deliver the opener over the music properly to both girls so it quickly became awkward and I was leaning in like a little bitch to add to the cake. He promptly got me out of there and told me what i'd done wrong.

Told me to approach a HB8/9 blonde, very pretty but not what I want. I approached, throwing the opener out of the window and going with 'I cba'd with a proper opener, so fuck it here I am, hi'. Managed to get some conversation going anyway. She was very polite and at least had the decency to talk with me even if she wasn't actually giving any interest at all. Fair enough but it would have been good for something to happen there.

We bounced back to the Harley for the swing class, got talking to an average girl with a heavy local accent, not attracted to her at all but we got a bit of banter/flirting on anyway. She ended up slapping me like 3 times at the end (annoying) so I just told her I was going to find someone cooler and just walked off. Danced with two girls in the swing class, neither I was particularly attracted to but he was trying to push me to escalate with one of them (didn't happen).

Got pushed into another approach with a set sat down. Opened with floss and managed to get a seat finally next to the girl I actually preferred (HB7/8). The opener failed on me at this point as her friend took a random disliking to my wing and basically told him to go away. At this point she then told my girl that she should stop talking to me (we were flirting a little bit already), and girls being girls, she politely apologised and I had to wish them a good night.

Things started getting a lot more busy at this point and lots more sets appeared. My wing just full on grabbed a girl and pushed her into me, HB8/9 as well, very pretty girl and made me go for the dance with her. Had a bit of a laugh but I chickened out and didn't try to escalate. We did get in with her group of friends though and he certainly started enjoying himself, dancing hard with all of her friends. He tried to escalate with the HB8/9 and failed 4 times so it was definitely a deadend.

The venue got very rammed at this point, became hard to move, hard to approach and I quickly started getting bored and more or less put myself through 3 hours of dancing with men/people that weren't interested. Hung out with various sets we'd opened but called it a night at about half 3.

Not a terrible night by any means but dancefloor game is definitely a deadend unless you escalate fast. I was just dying to do normal approaches by the end of it all really. Hopefully should go out again with him some time soon!

Overall: Very impressed with myself that I had so many approaches and actually talked to so many women. AA'd a helluva lot though and outright abandoned 1-2 sets but hey, I guess I can take comfort in what I did manage to do!

Well done for approaching the ones you did. You out tonight to try again?

Probably not in the game sense, going to be out with friends to see something though and got some day game lined up tomorrow. Not exactly feeling 100% right now either.

Day Game - 30/9/12

Met up with my wing from last week again, same place as before. Not exactly feeling great but still pushing myself to get some game done. Manage a total of 3 approaches, first approach is a 1 set, use the beach opener and doesn't go anywhere.

Wing my guy for a bit in a Starbucks as he opens up a 2 set sat down. Interaction eventually goes stale as he doesn't have a seat and his target's friend is a bit icy.

Second approach that I get down is a 2 set. He comes in and wings and I manage to snag the number from my girl. First number from the game! Will probably follow this up soon.

Third approach was with a stormtrooper and I coudn't get her to stop properly so that was that.

It started raining so my wing wanted to get out of there, I wasn't having too much fun getting rain blown in my face so I gotta out there soon after too.

Night Game - 6/10/12

Had a bit of a shit week, got really demoralised the night before seeing my mates get success with me just being a complete AFC wandering around without aim. Feeling really ill and grotty, but decide to head out anyway.

Meet up with Weapon and try to locate Mdb, but turns out he's already in set. We're being a bit shit, so we leave him to it and don't wing. Turns out he wanted to isolate and we should've winged him. End up bouncing around a few places, ideally trying to find somewhere not too noisy.

Mdb is all over the place and on fire, he's opened plenty of sets and I haven't went up to a single person yet. Neither has Weapon and we kind of mull around a bit, looking useless at life. We do a few approaches on the streets, but Weapon doesn't hook and I open at the wrong time.

At this point, Mdb gets into a set on the street and can't stop them so keeps walking with them. We don't want to keep following so we head off to a few more bars, chat to a 2 set, i'm not particularly bothered at all as they seem pretty boring. I go approach pretty much a HB10 and tell her she's beautiful, she politely says thanks and I eject.

Head to Bungalows and Bears and finally pull my pants up and get some proper approaches down. Hit a 2 set with a HB7/8 with the floss opener, we get a bit of an interaction going but nothing too much, they have to get back to their friend's birthday celebrations. Use the momentum to launch myself into a 3 set with just a 'hi', set contains two cute HB7's and get a really good solid interaction going. Weapon comes and wings and we keep the ball rolling. After a while, they decide to bounce to the next place. We let them get out of there, but I haven't got the number. Weapon forces me to chase them and I grab one of the two HB's number.

Call the night quits at this point and head home, although i'm pretty sure I could have got a bounce to the next bar if I had tried. Feeling shit though and want to get an early night so don't follow through.

Evaluation: I would say the HB I got the number off will most likely flake, or be unresponsive. I could feel her closing off to me at the end of the interaction, whereas I would have loved the number off the other HB as she was being much more receptive. Whatever, will try to make things happen but no biggie.

I'm more impressed that I managed to get three approaches (in my state) down and get a result. The first approach is definitely the worst though, still get strangling AA, but I think i'm slowly learning that things aren't as bad as I expect them to be. Definitely need to just keep hitting it!