Friday daytime - made progress with the day game (http://www.puaforum.co.uk/field-repo...ber-close.html)

Friday night - out with Craigus, Rebus, Foley and co. Good to meet up with like-minded guys, set-wise could have definitely pushed the boat out a bit more.

Saturday night - out in Croydon, blowouts left right and centre. But hey, that's the way the game plays out sometimes.

Sunday night - out with Tony and some of the Reading crew. 1st half of the night was great, lost energy in the last venue though.

Now I feel I'm at the stage where, very much like a computer game, you end up dying several times before finally making a breakthrough. These seem to be the main sticking points:

1) Not staying in set long enough. Opening fine, bouncing from set to set including mixed ones, but not establishing the connection. I think this links to....

2) Keeping the conversation going. I try to let it know naturally, I think I need to slow down the speed at which I talk and actually not anything sometimes so that the girl has to fill the conversation - after all, she hadn't run away at that point so there is some interest.

3) Shifting my frame of mind from:

'I need to open as many sets as possible and be high-energy all the time'

to

'I'm a cool-ass muthafucker, I embrace everyone and fear no-one, I know what I want and go for it'.

Over the course of the weekend I've realised that this last point is going to take time, practice and dedication. I feel good about this because in the space of the last month I've done many things that I never thought was possible, and look forward to the journey ahead. Another long weekend awaits.....

Peace