First time posting here, just thought I'd share something that happened to me recently. It's not as exciting as a same-day pull or anything, but it gave my ego a huge boost so I figured I'd share it and see if I could break down how it went so well.

 

Background: I'm a college student, overweight and not conventionally attractive. I've been studying PUA for several months now, and before that I was a very awkward person (not beating myself up, just saying that a good portion of you are already in a better position than I was).

 

So I was on the bus heading back from class, ironically reading Models by Mark Manson on my phone (which should tell you how much of a newbie I am). I had a date later with a girl I'd been seeing off and on, so I wasn't even in the mindset to game, but it's definitely what gave me my confidence during the interaction (a.k.a non-neediness). I was sitting in the back, waiting for the bus to start, when a HB7 Latina chick sits down in the aisle next to me. She's carrying what looks to be a pottery project of some sort, so I ask her about it, genuinely curious. She tells me it's an old Halloween decoration she found that she was going to show to her friend, so we engage in small talk about that for a bit. During the conversation I note the IOI's she's giving me (Bambi eyes, strong eye contact, she starts asking me questions when I go silent for a second), but even still my mind was focused on the date I had later. The conversation trails off and I go back to reading. After a couple minutes I catch the girl looking bored so I think "Fuck it" and ask her where she's from. We pick up the conversation again and I start employing techniques I had learned from RSD videos but never really practiced.

 

The Techniques:

  1. Flatline/Spike Talk: This is something I picked up from RSDMax (as are most of these techniques since I've watched a lot of his videos). It basically involves framing the conversation as a heart-beat monitor. You want the conversation to be mostly "flatline talk" (non-emotional small-talk. Stuff like "Where are you from?", "Have you seen X movie?", etc.), with emotional "spikes" throughout. (Anything that gets her to feel a strong emotion. Stuff like "Wow, you're short!" or "You seem like an uptight person". Just anything that gets her to feel something). And while talking you either spike more if she's getting bored or flatline more if she's overwhelmed by your teasing. If you flatline too long, or spike too much, the conversation dies.

  2. Escalating Kino: Anyone who's read this sub or PUA in general should already know this, but just in case you don't, it's basically just increasing your physicality with her to get her comfortable touching you, which makes her more invested in you as a possible romantic partner. I employed this by first saying that I couldn't hear her (which I genuinely couldn't, years of listening to heavy metal at full volume on my iPod made sure of that) so I moved from my seat to the one next to her. Then, any time she laughed at one of my jokes or recoiled from a tease I'd give her a pat on the shoulder or a brief touch on her thigh. She responded well enough to those so I eventually just put my arm around her.

  3. Yes/No/Maybe Calibration: This is again something I got from RSD videos, and it is essentially the glue that holds your game together. Basically, any time you escalate in any way with a girl (Teasing her, Asking more personal questions, touching her), she'll either respond with a Yes, No, or Maybe. You know it's a Yes if she responds with an IOI, or escalates even further than you started off with (e.g. you put your arm around her and she leans into it, you tease her about her hair and she plays with it and smiles at you, etc.). You know it's a No if she moves away from you or says "Stop" with a harsh tone of voice or anything like that. Anything inbetween is a Maybe, including her saying "No, stop" in a playful way, or any and all shit tests she might give (it can be hard to differentiate between No and Maybe, and this is what I even struggle with still). Basically, if you can determine what her reaction categorizes as, you can treat it like a set of traffic lights. Green light/Yes means you keep escalating. Red light/No means you stop, maybe even leave the set if it's a strong enough No. Yellow light/Maybe means slow down, but ramp back up again later to test her reactions. The girl I was talking to kept giving me Green lights, so I ramped up physicality and teasing until she started giving me Yellow lights in the form of nonreaction to my touch, at which point I slowed down but kept escalating.

 

So we had been talking for about 30 minutes, with me employing these techniques I've outlined. She had given me a couple shit tests, which I obliterated due to the fact I had a date later so my investment was low. My favorite was her asking how tall I was (I'm 6'6), and making an implication that "not everything on me was big," which I responded to by basically saying I had a micro-penis (mostly for self-amusement). Upon reflection this really highlighted to me how trivial shit tests are, since before that bus ride I had gotten way too nervous about how to respond to them, but now I see as long as you don't care you can say whatever you want.

 

By now the bus had started going, and it was getting pretty close to my stop, so I told her, and said "We'll have to keep our romance short and intimate" (a phrase I directly copied from RSDMax), and when she responded positively I went for the kiss and made out with her until my stop came. She asked for my Facebook, which I said I didn't use (which is true) and I got off the bus. I could've asked for her number and met again later, but due to asking logistics questions throughout the conversation I pieced together that she was only in town for the day and was staying at a friend's place, so I didn't bother since I had the date later anyway. It would've been near-guaranteed that I get her number and hook up later had I tried or if the logistics had been better, but I really didn't sweat it.

 

 

TL;DR: Met a HB7 and made out with her over the course of a 45 minute commute. Due to having a date later I had an IDGAF attitude, which let me crush her shit tests. I also used RSDMax techniques to spike her emotions and escalate physically, and calibrated to her reactions accordingly. All this coming from an overweight, socially awkward PUA newbie.