Thanks, ChocolatePUA.
It definitely seems like isolation/physical escalation is where I likely went wrong. Or even just keeping it as it was but planting the seed of doing something after the club. Hell, even just taking her number would have been wise!
I was maybe kind of overwhelmed, thinking about too much.
Even though i've had a few makeouts and stuff since ACTIVELY trying to implement game when I began around 9 months ago (and of course the one SameNightLay on one of my first every approaches), lots of them more 'successful' occasions felt more like luck in terms of the girl happening to find my physically attractive and kissing me without any comfort being built or me really doing anything at all in terms of game, and it felt more hollow. (like with the fairly hot Hungarian girl some pages back who jumped my bones without me even talking to her)
This night was one of maybe 4 occasions where I felt as though i'd manged to kind of build attraction through 'game' - Making her laugh, spiking her emotions, teasing her, trying to keep the conversation going, physically escalating out of nowhere a little etc. Plus she was well over a decade younger than me and was pretty much what I wanted, so the pressure was on. The other one that fits into this criterai was teh one where I went back to the girls house but decided not to stay with her after making out.
I really need more reference experiences a bit like these in order to get better I think, but as you are probably aware from reading, I get lots of 'instant rejections' and so it's very hard to actually 'learn on the job' most nights!
It's interesting looking back that the whole thing also wasn't very smooth at all in patches (especially at the beginning/the open/approach) yet I was able to kind of win her around a little bit at least. My observational opener about her ''two phones'' kind of bombed (even my brother mentioned this to me later, lol) and as soon as that conversational thread ran out, I kind of got stuck in my head and there was an awkward silence for too long!
I put pressure on myself to think of something funny/spike her emotions soon after opening, like Tylerrsd seems to be able to do, but I can't often think of anything, and i'm also weary of falling into 'chode question' mode which is maybe why I just sat there like a dickhead after my opening thread kind of ran it's course!
luckily I was able to recover it a little bit, but it was a bit lucky since she told me she was an air hostess, and I had some 'natural material' that I used about air hostesses that lead to a funny conversation, but if she'd have told me she had a different job, I think i'd have been like 'cool', and the convo would have died again!
I was able to get her laughing lots in the queue for the club when we saew them again, andfrom that point is where she was showing lots of interesting, asking me to dance, meet her friends, come outside with er etc.
Not to be pessimistic, but usually after a *somewhat* positive night, I tend to have an ego destroying night of harsh, instant rejections! Lets see how I get on this weekend!
Regarding the instant rejections - i'm Thinking of experimenting with some 'opinion openers'! Are they still valid?
I haven't kept s spreadsheet of my openers, but i'm honestly tempted to start tracking it! But it seems that a direct opener on UK girls just get's sucked into their inflated ego (from online compliments all day I guess) and then they dismiss you. I've had maybe 4 positive reactions (and one makeout) from a direct open out of lots of them. Usually they look at you as if to say ''Obviously I know i'm hot!' and then walk away, lol. I opened one girl with 'marry me!'. She said 'why?'. I said 'Because you're super cute!''. She looked genuinely shocked and please and later that night just walked upto me, and we made out.
Observational openers where I comment on a girls clothes or something she is doing or whatever is maybe my most common 'go too', but often girls are kind of startled and clam up (like the girl who turned into a mute after I made a friendly comment about her coat)
The old 'just say hi!!' or ''Say hi and introduce yourself!'' advice is almost certainly my most least successful opener, I think (even though US guys say it's their best) UK girls wonder what the hell you want and certainly won't reply with their name like US girls seem too. I actually read an interesting artice from lovesystems recently - one of te first ones to acknowledge the difference between US and UK cultures and how it effects game.
I'd say my most successful openers are probably ridiculous openers - such as pretending you recognise the girl from some obviously fake event, ot pretending to be her blind date for the night, or pretending to be a police officer etc! Obviously I still get some harsh rejections from these, but I tend to get more positive reactions. But at the same time, I hate using thses kind of openers in a way because it just feels wrong to need to open in such a weird way in order to have a better shot at getting into a conversation with a giril!
I'm also slightly annoyed at myself for bottling opening the table of 4 girls the other night. It was mainly a lack of balls, but I also didn't really know how to open them. Open them as a group? Open the target? Some sort of observational opener? In general I read that it's best to pick your battles wisely and just go for girls on their own and who are maybe showing you IOI's as opposed to a big group of girls sitting down who haven't even looked at you!
I also notice that from watching infields, lots of approaches aren't really 'approaches' in teh traditional sense - as in, guy spots hot girl from across the bar, walks over to her, taps her on the shoulder and starts speaking. Maybe I should have positioned myself near them first for a while and tried to force and IOI or something. It's like it's the 'he's walking towards me'' bit in a girl mind that most pua guys seem to be able to avoid in favour of a 'we just happened to meet EACH OTHER! I didn't go out of my way to meet you'' kind of feel