I am pretty new to pickup although I am skilled in NLP and hypnosis. I use traditional clinical hypnosis and NLP to help clients and naturally I am looking to use my skills for pickup since it is something I know a bit about. What skills do think are most useful to focus on in the beginning (anchoring, embedded commands, ambiguity, ect) and how can I open a girl with NLP? I like to walk up to a girl say hello, my name is, and after that its all NLP. I have studied Ross Jeffries and he is VERY skilled but when I speak with a woman I am not going to use patterns since they are a lot to remember and come off artificial. It seems better to simply slip in bit of NLP while talking to a woman. Any advice, tips, techniques or skills worth working on would be great. It is different using embedded commands in conversation than it is using them in a clinical setting so any advice on how make them flow more smoothly and way to practice is good.

Trash the NLP stuff and just go out and talk to girls. That's how you get better with girls.

The NLP stuff is just new age hooey.

Don't let people tell you that nlp doesn't work. Because I've found it to be the best technique I've ever used. You can just use embedded commands and get interest from them about 50-75% of the time. You can also use fractionation. But the best thing to do is figure out how to discretely slip a pattern into a conversation.