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Building Social Proof and High End Club Game

Posted September 18, 2009

5.0 is a Love Systems instructor based in London, UK. He is an expert at high-end club game and will be speaking at the Love Systems Super Conference(Oct 9-11, Las Vegas). Here’s a Q&A with him discussing high-end club game, how to build social proof, and more. What are you going to talk about at

Zen and the Art of Modern Dating: An Inquiry into Seduction

Posted August 31, 2009

I can tell how she leans her body into me – even as I angle myself behind her to guide her hands around the pool stick – that she’s smiling. The bar is smoky and humid, yet her oil-black hair smells fruity, girly, and fresh. If I’m this turned on at 10 p.m., I wonder

How to Hook up with a Girl who is a “Tease”

Posted August 11, 2009

How to Score a “Tease” If you’ve ever met a “tease” then you know exactly how frustrating they can be. These are the sort of girls that will drive you crazy trying to figure out the mixed signals they are sending. Even if you’ve never encountered one personally, chances are you know a friend who

Generating Superficial Rapport: Connecting over Pop Culture

Posted July 30, 2009

Pop culture is a social force that binds us with a collective unconscious. Advertising, movies, radio, Internet, and television constantly bombard our senses which condition our tastes, behaviors, memories, and, for some, our lives. While many people view this “socially conditioning” as purely restrictive, they fail to recognize the possibility such a collective social unconscious

Being Selective, Girlfriends Having No Friends & Having Game

Posted July 27, 2009

Ask Your Wingman We’re going straight to the mailbag this week. Next week, I’ll change gears and continue my series on life maintenance and talk about the social life, why it’s important to maintain one, even if you have a girlfriend and how to do it. If you have any questions for me, send me

Meeting Girls in College

Posted July 7, 2009

5 Questions About College Game With PUA Entropy Entropy has been coaching PUA to men since 2007. He was the co-founder of Practical Pickup and has worked with guys such as Sinn and Mehow. He focuses mostly on natural game, social circle game and college game. He recently released an audio course on college game

Relationship Maintenance, Second Dates and Open Relationships

Posted July 1, 2009

Ask Your Wingman Back this week for the beginning of what I think will be a cool lifestyle maintenance series. This week, we will cover relationship maintenance. For many guys, keeping the girl is much harder than getting her. We spend so much time thinking about ways to keep the relationship going that we forget

What if she says, I have a boyfriend?

Posted June 25, 2009

How to Handle When She Tells You She Has a Boyfriend If you’ve been out on the town for any length of time you are bound to have had the phrase muttered “I have a boyfriend” by some girl you’ve been talking to. I remember for many years this phrase used to be a game

Learning During The Inevitable Cold Streaks

Posted May 29, 2009

Excerpt from my book Bang: Some productivity experts recommend you attach a deadline to your goal. For example: “I am going to sleep with a mother and daughter team within six months.” I don’t advise doing this because the game is so unpredictable and quirky that time goals can be discouraging during the inevitable cold

5 Questions with Paladin

Posted May 13, 2009

“I am 28 years old. I didn’t lose my virginity til I was 18. I freaked out so much, due to my religious upbringing, that I didn’t have sex with her again. I have lived in USA, the UK and Japan. I fell in love for the first time in Japan. She slept with a

How to Use Magic Tricks to Build Attraction

Posted May 12, 2009

The Right Way to Use Magic as Part of Your Game Brad Jackson, of Pumaskills.com, is a guy I’ve come to know recently. At first I was a bit skeptical of the whole “magic” approach, but when I actually watched some of his videos, I began to see that he was actually teaching stuff that