First let me say this is my first field report, first post on Seddit, and actually first post on Reddit as well. After being a long time lurker to Seddit, after last night I felt I had to post. This was a bit long, so sorry about that.

Let me preface by saying a couple things. I, like most new to the game, struggle the most with AA and inner game. I have been casually browsing this Reddit for probably 6 or 8 months now, reading ever so often and absorbing what I can. Since discovering, I had used what I learned from here ever so often with mixed results, but also only recently turning 21, I have been pretty new to night game, and still learning to game in general.

More than anything it was always my inner game that got in the way of approaching. I've actually always been pretty good at reading others, reading body language, etc, and I'm at least a decent looking guy, so I know it's always just been in my head about approaching. I've tried approaching a few times in the past, but it has usually ended disastrously with me fumbling through words, speaking too quickly, and then just ejecting.

And then something just clicked last night. Everything I'd been reading about inner game, being alpha, abundance mentality, etc just clicked. Now for the field report.

So a good buddy and I decided to go out last night as it was Fall Break in my college town, so we figured there would be a lot of people out despite it being a Monday. There was not. But what the heck, figured we'd have a good time anyway. Stop at our first bar, pretty much the only ones there, had a couple beers and shot shit for a bit, and decided we'd try to find some interesting people that night. Now my buddy is an awesome guy, but he's pretty beta so I knew if there was gaming, I'd probably have to do the approaching etc. That's cool. We hit a couple of bars, look for some single HBs to no success, until the perfect open happened.

I see HB9, HB8, and HB7 walking opposite the street we are on and there is a couple of clearly very messed up homeless people cat-calling them. One of the guys starts walking towards the girls yelling obscenities. HB9 (who is clearly drunk at this point) is talking back to the guy, asking if he needs help or something. This homeless guy is clearly on some serious drugs and I'm not sure what he'd have done if he caught up to these girls.

I tell my buddy "alright, we are doing this." So I run over and say to the HB9 "Hey! How have you been! I haven't seen you in forever!" Give her a hug and start walking with them to the bar they were heading to. At this point my heart is pounding and I'm nervous as can be from this approach, but I just keep talking and walking. I love that this first ever successful approach didn't really give me time to think. No time for AA! Ended up chatting up the three girls in the bar for a while, tried to change venue and HB9 seemed to be pretty into it but unfortunately I think her friends were bored despite trying to be a good wing and engage my buddy in conversation as much as possible as well, so they said something about running to the bathroom together and changing bars. I didn't want to just tag along on their night out if they wanted a girl's night out so I say to HB9 "Hey, we'll hang here. Come grab us before you leave." Ended up chatting with a few other people there and told my buddy lets hit up another place. I see the girls closing their tab and so I say the heck with it and approach HB9 and say "Hey listen we are getting out of here, let me grab your number and we'll hang some time." She says "oh umm, we were thinking about going to another bar." bla bla, I just assumed changing the subject. That's cool. I smile and tell her maybe we'll see them around. No worries if she didn't want to give her number out.

At this point, I'm feeling this "in state" thing coming on. Despite not closing, I felt that went spectacularly well for a first successful approach. It felt awesome too because dudes kept approaching our group with clearly the most attractive girls in the bar and it was only my wing and I that were successfully engaging them. So we leave, hit up a few more bars without finding anything and finally found another bar with a two set HB9 and HB8.

I finish my drink and approach, saying "so listen my buddy is new to the area and we are just looking for some cool people to hang with. How's it going?" bla bla. Pretty cool set, but HB8's SO approaches after a minute. I introduce myself and my buddy and we are having a good chat, but HB9 is playing on her phone there are no IOIs either, so my buddy and I eject and head to another bar.

At this point I still can't believe this approaching is working; it's all about confidence, that key inner game, outcome independence (my buddy and I are just there to have a good time; closing is just secondary), and abundance mentality. We go into another bar and find a couple HB6s. I approach with the same opener as before and I get immediate bitch shield. They say "Sorry we aren't cool people. We are murderers actually. Serial killers." I say "Oh really! Me too! What weapon do you prefer." They say "No seriously, so you should probably go away..." At this point I'm not messing with that so I eject with "hope you guys have a good evening." and we leave the bar. No big deal. You'll always run into bitches.

We hit up another place. No HBs that are single but we hit it off with another table and end up chatting with a couple cool people for a while. It's about 30 minutes before closing time so I tell my buddy let's hit one more place and call it a night. We head to one of the two bars all the college people head to at the end of the night. Look around, no 2 or 3 sets by this point. I do see one HB8 redhead sitting at the bar, with what looks like her two friends on both sides being hit up by dudes and HB8 looking bored staring at her phone. I say what the hell? And approach. "So you were looking bored over here, and my buddy and I are looking for some cool people tonight, so I had to come say hi." Basically chit chat with her a bit, but by this time I'm tired and not feeling it. So after talking for a minute I eject and go grab my buddy. We are about to walk out, and I say screw it. I go to her and say "Hey listen we should hang some time before its 15 minutes before close. Let me grab your number." She gives it to me, I be sure to call her on the spot. Hell yeah! First number from a bar.

I text her a few minutes after (something I picked up here) with "So I met this cute redhead tonight. She was looking a little bored, but she got this cool guy's number that made her boring night just slightly better." She responds "Hah well aren't you clever." I say "I'm an engineer. We are innovative by nature. Especially when it comes to cute redheads :P "

She has not responded this morning, but I was thinking of hitting her up maybe Thursday about grabbing a drink this weekend.

More than anything, I've learned to get over AA. Also I found it interesting that all the very cute girls I approached were open to having a good time, and the one 2-set of HB6s were the only bitch ones. I also definitely need to work on kino and escalating, as all I accomplished last night was building rapport and comfort. All in all though, it was a hugely fun night, I learned a lot, and it definitely makes me want to game even more.