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Awesome! AA and a lack of a stack has been getting in my way. I'm going out with my wing tomorrow to do some day gaming, and he told me to have an opener prepared. How do you get started using canned openers when you've never used them before? I'd like to learn the 5 Oceans opener. Any advice, or should I just jump in and start asking a bunch of people if they know all five oceans? It feels a bit weird and maybe a touch dishonest to use pre-scripted material, but I know it would help me improve.

Syrrah wrote:Awesome! AA and a lack of a stack has been getting in my way. I'm going out with my wing tomorrow to do some day gaming, and he told me to have an opener prepared. How do you get started using canned openers when you've never used them before? I'd like to learn the 5 Oceans opener. Any advice, or should I just jump in and start asking a bunch of people if they know all five oceans? It feels a bit weird and maybe a touch dishonest to use pre-scripted material, but I know it would help me improve.

Of course it will feel weird the first time you use it. Think of the first time that you drove a car: you were conscious about working the gas and brake pedals, turn signals, steering, using the mirrors, obeying traffic laws, etc. But with more time and experience on the road and behind the wheel, now you probably don't even think about that stuff.

Same with routines like Five Oceans: it's awkward at first, but the more that you use it, the easier it becomes until it becomes second nature, which then allows you to focus on other things like body language, kino escalation, etc.

So gon in-field tomorrow. Use the Five Oceans Opener. Approach a bunch of sets with that opener. And the more you use it, the more comfortable and confident you will be with it!

Then write a Field Report about your experiences.

Looking forward to reading it!

FR? Alright, you've got it. Any tips on getting past the initial AA before I'm warmed up? I'd hate for my FR to be like the last one, where my wing and I couldn't get past the AA and ended up feeling like complete tools.

Thanks!
~Syrrah

hey guys, just wanted to drop in and thank you for being so awesome last weekend.

about to jump on my plane home, chillin at LAX trying to keep my eyes open so I fall asleep on the flight.


I do have a question as well. if Im hanging at a club with two girls, one is ugly and i want to fuck the other one. do you have any suggestions with how to play?

i.e last night in town, number close is useless.

this already happened and i didn't get the desired outcome, so want some ideas for next time it comes up

Is this still going on?

What was the best way you guys got over AA. My gut is telling me to just do it and get it over with and that it will honestly go away with time and enough successful approaches will breed that success mindset attitude which will in turn decrease the amount of approach anxiety and turn it into a fun thing rather than a grueling chore i don't look forward to.

Syrrah wrote:Awesome! AA and a lack of a stack has been getting in my way. I'm going out with my wing tomorrow to do some day gaming, and he told me to have an opener prepared. How do you get started using canned openers when you've never used them before? I'd like to learn the 5 Oceans opener. Any advice, or should I just jump in and start asking a bunch of people if they know all five oceans? It feels a bit weird and maybe a touch dishonest to use pre-scripted material, but I know it would help me improve.

so small chunk it

work on opening for now

pick an opener or two that you like and then have an soi that they're sexy.

can start with HG to get warmed up. ask for help in the store.


can help too if you have a wing and you guys can play 'go'

lego_5858 wrote:Is this still going on?

Yes, replying soon!