I picked up a few shy girls online, went on some dates. All had nearly exact personality types, did the exact same things on dates, and said nearly exact same things on dates.

These were my first go at PUA techniques and obviously I need practice - I failed to escalate and my kino was weak, but improved each date. These girls were boring! It was almost like pulling teeth. I was surprised because I had great rapport with them through texting/messaging before hand so it was really a shock when we met up and all of them pulled the same game:

1) As soon as we met they would act distant, wouldn't look me in the face, would barely say a word, and kept physical distance from me and gave really cold body language. I reacted by trying to engage them, but this just gave the feel I was chasing them. There were some IOIs, but I just couldn't get them to leave their shell to emotionally connect with me. I know I need to kino right away, but I couldn't figure out how to do it without being awkward. They put actual physical distance between us that I would need to pull them in to make it possible to kino. Of course the pulling in would be kino, but that was exactly what I couldn't figure out how to do smoothly.

2) They all had this air of negativity. Mentioned they didnt like physical touch in certain situations: massage (wtf?!?), the feeling of jewelry...And just generally gave off a vibe of don't touch me.

I'm sure this is standard stuff - what's your take?