April 7th
Just got back from Los Angeles.
Overall pros of the trip:
I pulled and made VP look like a straight up AFC.
It was scenic....I guess.
It was nice to get out of AZ.
I proved to myself that I can game anywhere.
Cons:
I think I got strep throat.
I spent way too much fucking money and I got a $60 parking ticket.
LA had very few good sets. All of the busier venues have fat cover charges and long lines.
Anyway, I'll summarize the trip.
We drove from AZ to LA on Friday afternoon. Ended up getting to our hostel in Hollywood around 9pm I think. The hostel was cool because we instantly met dudes from all around the world who were out to have a good time. We met an Aussie dude who was a natural as far as game goes. Just an older dude going around the U.S. and banging chicks. I talked to him about rock bands in Australia and what the girls are like. He said that the American accent helps and that the girls are pretty laid back. I will definitely add Australia to the places where I want to game. We also met some British dudes who were on a similar mission. They showed us pics of chicks that they had gotten with in Florida. I was actually a little jealous. Having a British accent is probably the biggest DHV a guy can have in America.
We all started drinking and I got pretty damn buzzed which his highly irregular of me. I was as drunk as VP on any given weekday. We got on the party bus and headed to the first club. Nothing beats that pre-going out excitement and not knowing what the night will hold. Unfortunately, we would find out that it wouldn't hold much.
We got to the first bar and it was dead. I could have gamed a cemetery and gotten better results. I guess we got there too early by LA standards (it was midnight) because Aussie homie would later tell us that it got packed later on in the night. I regret us leaving when we did. We did our best with what we had in front of us. I remember seeing a group of people at the bar. It was one foreign dude and two hot chicks with him. I opened the mixed set and talked to homie about where he was from. I don't really remember the entirety of our conversation, but I remember talking about how he was from Turkey. He seemed fairly friendly but the conversation didn't really go anywhere. VP ended up wanting to get the fuck out of there. So we did.
After that we were on our own. This was probably the toughest part of being in LA. We had no idea which clubs to go to. If we were back on our home turf, we always know which clubs will have the greatest probability of having sets. In Hollywood, we were flying blind. We didn't want to drop 40 bucks to get into a club that was dead. (That's another good thing about the places in Arizona. It is hard to find a place that has a cover charge.)
The second bar had 2 sets of 2. VP took one set and I took the other. My go to open was the "I'm not from around these parts...where is a good place to go?" opener. Very safe and indirect. I got the set into a conversation. None of them were particularly hot and they were acting lesbian-ish. I hit the first hook point though...they were comfortable talking with me. The attraction hook point seemed out of reach though and I didn't particularly feel like investing in them to achieve it. I rolled off and saw VP blowing out with a 2 set. After he blew out we went to a few other bars that no sets. We did a few street opens in between that blew out.
Eventually we walked into the bar that Tyler from RSD walks into in this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeE19ueRYa0 (2:50 in). There were probably 2 sets total in there. So we went to work. I think VP started talking to one of the sets at the bar. He blew out with one of them. There was no other game in town, so I went in after him. One of the chicks in the set had a straight up bitchy face. We would later find out that she had a bitchy demeanor to match. She looked like a poor man's Helen Hunt. Here is a picture that is pretty close to what she looked like:
http://tinyurl.com/ml9x6ke. The friend digged me though. I'll be honest, she wasn't drop dead gorgeous. She was a pretty average looking girl. I could fuck with it though...at least she wasn't being a bitch. I got her into conversation, and when I knew she was hooked, I went for the kiss. VP stood by and watched. Here's a link to what I looked like
http://tinyurl.com/mmq3apg. I got the number and got to work on pulling them back to the hostel. The bitchy friend was doing everything in her power to make sure nobody enjoyed themselves. I did whatever it took to get them to go back with us. I lied and said we had a bunch of alcohol and everyone would be partying at the hostel. We got to the hostel and everyone was asleep. We snuck the chicks into our room (that we shared with some foreign exchange students that would soon hate us). Bitchy friend came up with the great idea of smoking weed inside the room. Again, me and VP were prepared to do whatever it took to facilitate the pull. I pretended to inhale it and passed it to VP. He actually took some deep hits from it. Some Belgian dude woke up and started bitching at us. We apologized but he still wasn't very pleased. I said some shit that made my chick laugh. I covered her mouth with my hand and told her to be quiet. I got some more kisses in for good measure. Bitchy didn't say a word but the pain body was strong. At one point she said she wanted to smoke outside. We tried to get her to stay but she insisted. I decided to leave my chick and go out to accompany her. I did this for two reasons. One, I knew that if I wanted to fool around with my chick that night I had to get the friend to stay on board. Two, the first chick was already hooked. Part of me wanted to pull Bitchy too. VP was getting dominated.
It didn't go anywhere with Bitchy though. We went back inside and Bitchy insisted on getting pizza. So we all took a cab to some pizza shop. Me and VP knew that we were going backwards with the pull. We crossed our fingers that we would somehow pull something out if we slugged it out long enough. Once we got to the pizza shop, I think we went to one more bar. That's where Bitchy met up with her friends. She didn't even attempt to pay for the cab. Ugh I still remember what her face looked like when we stopped and she immediately turned to me to cover the cab fare. VP had already jumped out of the cab. I should have done the same, especially if I had known what the future outcome that was in store. I ended up tossing 2 bucks for the tip and my girl covered the rest. Fuck you Bitchy.
So we were left on the street corner with our dicks in our hands while the set bounced. My girl texted me later apologizing for how the night turned out.
The next day, we went to Santa Monica to daygame. We went to one bar that was pretty cool called Bungalow. Another PUA I know told me it was a good venue. Everything about it was pretty upscale and all the people there looked pretty wealthy. Meanwhile, me and VP were in all black looking like dirty rock stars. We hadn't showered the previous night either...so we were literally dirty. I felt out of place, and it got in my head. I tried to kickstart myself into going beastmode and opening everything but I couldn't do it. We did open a few sets though. We had to get our three social opens a piece. I'm not going to go into too much detail, because VP already summarized what went down in his FR. Anyway, we left that place still feeling stifled when it comes to daygame.
I did make VP tell this old foreign chick that she was the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, and then leave right after. That shit was pretty funny. He made me ask this dude standing around if he was a PUA. The guy said he didn't know what a pick up artist was. I explained it to him, and he said he wasn't one. What a dreadfully boring bastard.
That night we pregamed and got hyped watching RSD in field footage. I definitely enjoy the thrill that comes along with gaming new places. That night would still turn out to be pretty slow though. Especially for VP, that poor bastard. I hope he revamps his game after this trip.
We took a cab out to the Sunset Strip. We tried to get into the Viper Room but there was a cover. We asked the bouncer where there were good places to go. This was like the 10th time we had asked that question and he said the same thing. Well what are you guys looking to do?
Well Mr. Bouncer, me and my dude friend here are looking to go out and spend a quiet evening together. We would prefer that it is dead quiet, and that there is not a single woman there. If we are feeling particularly adventurous, we might want to play some darts and play smooth jazz on the jukebox.
WE ARE HERE TO FUCKING GAME BRO. I WANT TO MAKE OUT WITH MULTIPLE DRUNK SUPER MODELS AT THE SAME TIME.
We politely told the bouncer we might come back and walked to this nearby bar/restaurant place and got a table. The waitress thought we were going to order dinner or something. When will these people understand that not a single thing I do is unrelated to game?
I ended up opening a girl across from me. I was getting frustrated, and decided I might as well go aggressive. It was my last night in LA. I hugged her pretty early on in the interaction. She seemed to be vibing with me. I thought I had her hooked, but then she said she had to talk to her friends. She walked over 5 feet away and never returned to our conversation. I still fail to understand why girls cockblock themselves from having an amazing night. Her dude friends were hideous, old, and way more boring than me. I pitied her.
I walked to the other side of the room and opened a 2 set sitting down. VP followed and we split the two girls. If I had known what he was going to do to that set, I would've told him to just go sit in the corner and quietly take notes on my game. I hit the comfort hook point with my girl very early on. She kept telling me how good looking I was and shit. This was interwoven with how she had a boyfriend. I started asking her about her boyfriend and was prepared to see how far I could take the interaction. I'm not completely confident that I could have hooked her completely, but I was on the right track. She was entering good bars to check out in VP's phone (my phone was dead). Then VP felt the need to chug the friend's drink. Gah that uncalibrated motherfucker. I think he gets off on causing girls pain...which is fine but I don't like being associated with it. The chick I was talking to shut down. She erased all the bars she had entered into the phone and gave the phone back. She kept saying she was done talking to us and that we were rude. Once we hit that point of no return, I don't enjoy sticking around. I said peace and walked out of the bar. VP stuck around, either to talk more shit to the chicks or because he had to finish his beer first. I think it was a combo of both.
I told VP he's gotta keep that shit in check. I understand that he has no problem burning sets to the ground, but it makes more sense to do it in a controlled way. Let me kiss the chick with a boyfriend before you start chugging their drinks. I'll teach him the proper art of push/pull.
After that we tried to get into the W, but they wouldn't let us in. We decided to run street game with the remaining time we had. We spotted a group of chicks getting into their car. They saw us walk by. The blonde one getting into driver's side hollered at me saying I was hot or something. I stopped in my tracks, and walked over to her. I deserved to be shot if I didn't try to game her.
She looked like the epitome of a little Cali girl who thinks she is famous. I told her she looked like the rapper chick that Rob Dyrdek kicks around on his show
http://dopemag.net/wp-content/uploads/2 ... ANEL-2.jpg. She said she gets that all the time and that she is going to become a rapper herself. I did my best not to hate her because she was actually cute in an obnoxious kind of way. VP was spitting game with the girl on the other side of the car. Some other chick popped her head out from the backseat, and started talking to me. So I talked to Miley Cyrus knockoff and she started shit testing me about not being from Texas. I was starting to lose interest in these two, and they were starting to lose interest in me. Then the friend that VP was talking to came over to me. I pretty much said fuck this I'm gonna k-close this chick before I find out she's annoying too and peace out. The girls wanted to exchange instagram info. I guess it made more sense to do that then exchange phone numbers when I was leaving anyway. VP was trying to get the chick that came over to me to drink in the backseat of the car. I would have played along with it, but the wannabe rapper chick kept bitching about having to go home. I knew that it was a long shot that we could ride this set out. So I took a pull from their bottle and made out with the chick VP was talking to. I bet it stung pretty bad because VP still hadn't pulled a single k-close. He was in rare form. After that I just straight up walked away. I heard the blonde chick scold her friend about making out with me.
"Yeah you should never do that" she said in her Cali accent. I laughed.
After that we played more street game. I don't want to go into detail because nothing exceptional happened. At the end of the night, we took a cab back to the hostel.
I called the girl from the previous night and got her to come over. She ended up showing up and I f-closed her on the sofa in the hostel lounge. I told VP I was gonna do it in his bunk and that he could listen if he wanted. I wasn't that ruthless though. I actually felt bad VP didn't pull anything.
The next day we did some more daygame around Santa Monica. We were still stifled, even though we were in an entirely different city where we knew no one. The only thing that happened of any significance was when I was walking through the Bloomingdales store there. I caught some hard IOI's form a cashier chick. She was extremely cute. I made up my mind that I was going to walk up to her and just ask her to marry me. I hesitated though, and lost her. I kicked myself for making that same damn mistake of not obeying the 3 second rule.
If you actually want to approach, force yourself to do so. Think about how bad regret stings when you don't take the shot. It is worse than blowing out.
Takeaways
Gaming in other places is fun, but it is crucial that you have some connections once you get there. Know which places to go, how much it is going to cost, and what you have to wear.
I still have inner game issues to tweak. My and VP are especially weak when it comes to daygame.
I proved to myself that I can pull outside of my hometown.
This field report was a little weak in detail because VP summarized most of the trip in field report, and because it was hard for me to remember everything that happened in the past few days. I think if I travel in the future, I'm going to bring a journal to jot down notes about things right after they happen.