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Commentary on “The Spin Move”

Yesterday we had to take one of the bonuses out of the bundle and tonight another bonus will be taken out of the Tactics & Techniques bundle. I don’t want you to miss any of the bonuses but we have to keep from going broke giving so many things away, so before midnight tonight (EST) is your last chance before another bonus is removed. Go the info page now to find out how to get “Tactics & Techniques”:

http://www.artofthepickup.com/aotptt/

OK, I know you’re going to get yourself a copy of the bundle and check that page after enjoying this post, so without further adieu here’s my and Ray’s commentary “The Spin Move”.

Now… go get T&T which still includes 8 out of the 9 original bonuses. But, hurry up, because at the stroke of midnight that will become 7 out of 9.

~Jay

Hey guys, I hope you had a great Halloween weekend.  If you live in the US, don’t forget to vote tomorrow!

Anyway, I just alerted our T&T list with the following note:

I don’t want to be overly melodramatic but tonight is when one of the bonuses disappears from the Tactics & Techniques bundle.

I was going to have to remove 2 of the bonuses but, because tomorrow is Election Day here in the US, I’m going to remove only 1 by midnight tonight and the other I will keep until midnight tomorrow night as a reward for everyone who I know will be taking the time tomorrow to vote :)

So, that means you only have a few more hours to grab every bonus we’ve put together before one of them is taken away.  I really hate to do it but, as I mention on our info page, we’re barely covering our costs on it and I can’t offer the entire bundle this way forever.

I can’t even afford to be doing this anyway, I should be busy working on our web sites, working on advertising for others, writing code, and keeping the systems people depend on up and running.

But, right now, I would rather give you the best I have to offer.

Everyone knows that’s the way I am, and I won’t change.

But, we’re in the real world and I can’t give you the shirt off my back indefinitely and I really do have to take away at least one of the bonuses tonight.  Before you lose your chance to get the full bundle, read our info page here:

http://artofthepickup.com/aotptt/

~Jay

Before watching this next clip, don’t forget that the bonuses for Tactics & Techniques are only available for a short time and if you want to get your hands on the whole kit-n-kaboodle before we take them away, get yourself over the T&T info page:

http://www.artofthepickup.com/aotptt/

Alright, so this video shows off a really good maneuver, which also helps initiate touch and create a fun but challenging vibe. It’s called “The Spin Move”.

“Tactics & Techniques” is not only packed to the brim with these kind of videos, but just about all of them have a review menu with commentary from Ray and me, and it is fully navigational so you can go to the stages of pickup you’re most interested, the various permutations of those stages, and make full use of everything you would want an interactive teaching system to be. And did I mention all the bonuses? :)

~Jay

Believe it or not we added yet ANOTHER bonus to the Tactics & Techniques package.

It took a bit of negotiation, and I fought for you guys to make the bonus available, all the way up until 1 minute BEFORE I unleashed Tactics & Techniques.  Literally, just as I was ready to flip the switch, I got the call that gave me the go-ahead to make the offer.

So after I got back to flipping the switch, I needed to re-visit our description page and because we got this extra bonus added one day after unleashing the beast, I am giving you guys a whole extra day to get access to the bonuses we’re including with the T&T package.

So now you have until midnight (Eastern Time) on November 3 to ensure you get access to the full set of bonuses.

To find out about the extra bonus, go to:

http://www.artofthepickup.com/aotptt/

~Jay

P.S. More bootcamps, articles, and videos on the way, just need 1-2 days breather for myself after all the work I’ve done this month.

Hey guys, the WITCHING HOUR is upon us!

No more waiting, “The Art of the Pickup: Tactics & Techniques” is officially ready for release!  I could go on and on, but I know what you really want to do is to:

Go get all the info on it ASAP!
http://www.artofthepickup.com/aotptt/

You WILL want to check out the info on it, because we have a limited time bonus bundle packed with an assortment of incredible features - all are digital downloads you get IN ADDITION to the core product.

Here’s our commentary on the “Short Circuiting LMR” clip!

~Jay

When I was still in college, I used to work at a print shop.  We did all kinds of printing copying and finishing.  My friend who worked there (the first guy I ever knew who had actual, real, game with women) always gave me gold nuggets of advice that I never realized were gold until years later.

Anyway, at this place just about everything we did involved repetition.  Printing, collating, cutting, folding, binding, packing.  Even the things that didn’t seem to have a repetition were repetitive in the sense that we did them many times for different jobs and customers.  Layout, plate-making, repairing and cleaning machines, shipping.

My friend would always have a competition, against himself, to find any angle possible to do any given task faster, more efficient, and better.  There were even times I would find a way to beat his performance, only to find he found yet another way to do something faster and more efficient.

I didn’t find this discouraging at all, it was inspiring, and I found such challenges made the job more enjoyable than it already was (call me crazy, I liked running a printing press).  What I learned from that was a certain life-improving discipline which I’ll share with you now.

This performance-chasing friend would tell me “repetition builds speed and accuracy”.

He was right.  I don’t think he looked any deeper than the cause and effect, but the curious person I am I tend to want to know why such a simple pragmatism never fails.  To understand it is to own it.

It’s not that repetition builds some kind of physical change, unless you’re talking about working out or nutrition or the landscape being carved by water over millions of years.  What repetition does, when it comes to actions and behavior, is build a “memory”, but not a memory of an event, rather a memory of a path.  Like walking a trail so often that you eventually create a visible path to follow where you can let go of the memory altogether and what remains is the equivalent of instinct.

Ants do this.

Have you ever watched how ants forage?  They have a colony and it seems when the ants begin to investigate the terrain, they crawl around almost randomly but then eventually they make a trail that all of them follow to and from a source of food.

How do they know which way to go?

What they do is, when they are initially foraging for food, they crawl around randomly until they find something.  Then, on their way back to the colony, the leave a scent trail using pheromones.  After time, when multiple ants do this, the pheromone trail back to the colony becomes stronger and stronger, to the point where ants leaving the colony and going to the food can easily follow the most direct trail available to the food, even without any other ants to follow.

How does this help you?

It helps you to understand and appreciate the value of repetition.  Repetition garners familiarity and with familiarity comes inherent confidence.  When you are familiar with something, you are more confident in it.  When you are familiar with something, you are more skillful. You are quicker on your feet.  You have more predictable results.

Once you build enough repetition and familiarity in something, the path has been paved so solidly that you become inherently competent, your instincts are finely tuned, and you can easily trust yourself to get the outcome you want without it feeling hard to do.

But to get there, you need to pound down the path.  You need to utilize the tool of experience to get to the point of what can be called a natural instinct.  If you didn’t understand this before, you understand it now and the next gold nugget I will give you is to realize that you are like an ant in a colony and the experiences of others are like the pheremone trails building up.

For example, when we give you a tactic, technique, or routine, on this blog or in the almost-released “Tactics & Techniques”, we are giving you tried-and-tested piece of game that you can use and repeat enough times that eventually, put altogether, allows you to build an instinct for pickup.  Each individual piece of material, no matter how much we break it down, won’t be a magic bullet by itself to get you there, but the combination of it all, and put into practice with repetition WILL get you there.

So, let go of the conflict between “direct game” or “indirect” game, “inner game” versus “outer game”, natural versus dynamic, eventually it will all be natural and dynamic for you.  But you can’t get there without the ant trails.  You can’t forage for success by blindly going in all directions without building those trails.

I haven’t done dishes in over a week. The rest of my place looks like a tornado ripped through it.  I won’t even tell you about my stacks of laundry.

Everyone who knows me knows I’m normally an insanely clean guy, my place is always taken care of.

So what happened?

I’ve been working non-stop insane hours to bring you the best, both this month and into the future, to the point of obsession.  Now, it’s not likely I’ll be working this insane, ignoring such basic human needs as sleep, indefinitely.  But, we’re close to unleashing one of the most kick-ass packages to help your game that you will ever come across.

Speaking of “the kitchen sink”, the T&T package will include everything AND the kitchen sink (don’t worry, not mine).  I’ll leave the final details for the witching hour (hey, we are releasing it on HALLOWEEN), but in short it will include a number of digital bonuses along with the T&T disc set, such as an exclusive 90-minute interview with Cameron Teone, an audio file of our first teleconference, a 35-minute incredibly detailed “first date” how-to video, the full and complete transcripts for T&T (187 pages long), and access to our next 4 teleconferences.

As a precursor to all that, I’ve made it a point to flood this blog with constant bits of advice and videos, sent out (and still sending) some of the best newsletters anywhere on pickup to both our “Pickup Arts” newsletter and “Tactics & Techniques” bonus list, host an email bootcamp that’s still going on, organizing free giveaways, a teleconference, preparing the behind-the-scenes technicals to make this all happen, and all kinds of other goodies.  That’s just the stuff you see.  The blog itself and all our infrastructure are hobbled together with my bare hands, code, graphics, and most of the content.  A lot of you know I also host the largest site on the planet for pickup, and I can’t even begun to tell you what’s planned for the future.

But this month… this month… was dedicated to ensuring a proper introduction to “Tactics & Techniques“.  I have a number of videos still to share, continued advice, and even more newsletter follow-ups.  Most importantly, in less than 2 days, the media package you’ve been anticipating and waiting for will finally be unleashed and, maybe, just maybe, I’ll get some sleep.

After I do my dishes.

You’re making out and starting to escalate to sex, then she resists or pulls back. She’s clearly interested, not saying no, but still offering up resistence. We’ve all been there. Here is a way to short circuit this sort of behavior from her.

~Jay