I just wanna know if my experience is normal for a beginner, and any tips/pointers to make it better:

Started going direct with women about 9 months ago, but had a life problem get in the way for about 3. So I’ve been officially “doing Game” for about 6 months. I’d say total approaches I’ve done is about 130ish, both Nightgame and Daygame, buzzed(but never shitfaced) and sober.

Nightgame has gotten easier and I’m able to consistently approach. But Daygame is just so damn hard. It seems more than half of the time I walk around for hours without doing a single approach. Sometimes I get one approach in. I’ve a handful of times where I’ve cracked a bit of volume and got 2-4 approaches in, but so far never more than that.

It’s weird, if I’m in an interaction I handle myself pretty well, and I don’t mind getting rejected after the open (if I happen to do it)

But the FIRST step, just opening a girl, causes me to freeze up in most cases. In DG I feel so exposed. I fear specific things like:

- doing a bad, embarrassing, cringy approach

- getting ignored

- people watching/hearing me

- accidentally approaching the same girl

Again, is this normal beginner trajectory? Despite the slow crawl, it IS a little easier to approach than before. But I hear about so many beginner guys who’ve started racking up volume, numbers, and dates relatively quickly. I just wanna know wtf my problem is if there is one.