I am a pua in training and i recently met a guy who is more advanced than me in this whole deal. I tell you it has been amazing going out with him, not only because I learn stuff from watching him, but because he knows exactly what i am going trough , how i am feeling and most importantly he calls me on my bs. I tend to be very shy when i am sober and use alcohol as crutches, think of it as ballmers peak of pua http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2007-09-30_223017.png .Every time he sees me doing something wrong he will call it out on me. Good examples of this, i am talking to a girl he would come and say Hey man do you know what time is Kino coming? or he would just txt me 'kino'. Or he would tell me small things here and there like, stand up straight, take space, don't hold your drink like that (across your chest), etc. But the one that sticked to me the most is when i was being too shy to talk to sets. He told me the following (i think he got this from a PUA but i can't remember which1 it was), "imagine that you are driving a car, you are going down the highway, music is blasting and you are going top speed. Its just you in the highway and you see a curve up ahead and you want to land that curve going top speed! Now that curve is the girl and in order for you to land it perfectly, you are going to have to try, I dare you to go and fucking crash the car until you know how to do it perfectly!". Now and then when i know that i am acting afc i just tell my self , "snap out off it , crash the car!". So if you don't have a wingman go find one bc its awesome and if you do have one don't be afraid to call on his bs or stuff that he is fucking up.