Anatomy Of A Pickup

Process

Depending on skill, level of attraction already achieved, or logistics, any portion of the following process can be collapsed. However, except for the case of "fool's mate", no part of the process can actually be skipped whether it takes 2 hours or 2 seconds.

Pre-Approach

• prepare
  • exercise?
  • clothes
  • grooming?
  • affirmations?
  • research?
  • practice (c&b)
  • nutrition?
  • sleep?
  • anchor

• find?
  • passive?: venue?
  • passive?: flux?
  • active?: networking?

Approach

• paimai (attract? pre-approach?)
  • passive?: presence? (visual?, auditory?)
  • passive?: confidence
  • passive?: approachability?
  • passive?: appearance, grooming?, style?
  • passive?: smell?
  • active?/passive?: mirror?
  • active?/passive?: peacocking
  • active?/passive?: social proof
  • active?: 3s, skip to "approach?"
  • active?: ec, skip to "approach?"

• observe?
  • visual?
  • auditory?
  • calibrate? for pre-attraction?

• ai/paimai?

• approach?
  • throwaways?
  • warm-ups?

Open

• open
  • [specific opener]?
  • environment opener
  • [ai opener]?
  • [gimmick opener]?
  • random?/dynamic? opener?
  • [compliment opener]?
  • [break state]?

• meet? (circular process until jumping to next stage)
  • ev
  • ioi
  • iod
  • neg
  • group theory

Attract

• attract? (circular process until jumping to next stage)
  • ivd
  • dhv
  • dlv
  • girl close
  • rapport? (comfort?)
  • mirror? (comfort?)
  • takeaway
  • screening?
  • qualifying
  • gwm
  • 101/push-pull
  • gimmicks?
  • [proximity kino]? (comfort?)
  • c&f
  • c&p
  • ss
  • gm
  • mr. smooth
  • wing support
  • mp
  • mm
  • challenge?
  • pivot
  • pawn
  • group theory (if target in group?)
  • filter?
  • ratify?
  • anchor
  • recall anchor
  • bypassing asd
  • stories?
  • games?
  • routines

• calibrate? (circular process until jumping to next stage)
  • ioi (or back to attract?)
  • ddb (or back to attract?)
  • frame control (or back to attract?)
  • reframing (or back to attract?)

• soi (circular process until jumping to next stage)
  • kiss? (or back to calibrate?)
  • [sexual kino]? (or back to calibrate?)

• control?
  • [escalating control structure]?
  • pace?
  • lead?

Extract

• extract
  • [change venue]?
  • kami

• isolate
  • plrm

Close

• f close
  • escalating? kino
  • lust? / [horny state]?
  • lmr

Flow / Phases (Established with Emotional Phasing)

• PREP
• Phase-shift: ATTRACT?
• Phase-shift: seduce-attract
• Phase-shift: attract-seduce
• Phase-shift: SEDUCE?

Flow / Ongoing (Background)

• alpha ... internal? & body language, [low-transmission display]?, CUEing?
• control? ... "[dog training]?", getting / keeping
• [ultimate frame]? (ability to dynamically re-frame?, [always prepared]?, general framing? & re-framing?)
• cues? ([display vs claim]?)
• calibrate? (constantly evaluate situation, [proximity to sex]?)
• [taking action]? (passive? stage)
• [taking action]? (active? stage: don't wait for the chick to make the move)
• NEXT / recycle (if necessary)
• defaulting (bridge close: #, @, map)
• contact close follow-up (follow-up?, re-meet?, re-game?, return to process? structure)

Flow / Troubleshooting (Preparation, Study, Field Testing)

• obstacle
• cockblock
• bitch shield
• shit tests
• amog
• asd
• lmr
• ljbf

Variation Factors

The following factors require adjustment to aspects of the process.

• if paimai = attract?:
  • go through token stages

• specific venues?:
  • street?
  • [street venue]?
  • bar?
  • club?
  • party?
  • [rapport venue]?

• approach? type:
  • [warm approach]?
  • [cold approach]?
  • group? vs lonewolf?
  • with wings vs solo?

• chick types:
  • hd? vs ld?
  • lse? vs hse?
  • victim chick
  • emotional? vs physical?
  • passive? vs aggressive?