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- Radical
- Posts: 1726 | Thanks: 1441
- Joined: Sat May 30, 2020 12:02 pm
- Name: Cam
- Goal: Funnel/Product Building
- Age: 29
- Motto: Take drastic action
Here we go, the online ball is rolling
Hopefully you keep up the approaches too
Try and fight the 'im not feeling it' thing when you are starting out - that kills progress and theres merit in just sucking it up when theres opportunity
You NEED experience
Hopefully you keep up the approaches too
Try and fight the 'im not feeling it' thing when you are starting out - that kills progress and theres merit in just sucking it up when theres opportunity
You NEED experience
- Manganiello
- Posts: 1710 | Thanks: 2021
- Joined: Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:25 am
- Name: Brandon
- Goal: Career Launch
- Age: 33
- Motto: Embrace your Darkside
- Location: Seoul
Sept 9
Day 3 of Online
Tinder
Boosted at 7:30pm
12 likes. Probably 5 from the boost.
3 numbers.
1 date setup for Monday.
1 cute girl wanted to snap, but I don't even use it.
Might need to start building up social profiles again :/
Hinge
Started Hinge last night.
Haven't paid for premium yet.
~8 messages
Matched twice
Got 1 number.
Badoo
Gonna try and sign up as soon as I'm done writing this.
OVERALL
Running Total:
5 #s/60 matches
70-80 likes.
Might use this format/might not.
One thing I really want to do is post weekly updates on stats messages/boosts/matches/numbers etc.
Think it would be beneficial to myself and others if we can see how it's going. I've been pretty candid about the approach stuff, so might as well do it here.
@Master What other apps seem to be popular in Canada?
Bumble/Hinge/Badoo (I think)/Tinder. Anything else?
Day 3 of Online
Tinder
Boosted at 7:30pm
12 likes. Probably 5 from the boost.
3 numbers.
1 date setup for Monday.
1 cute girl wanted to snap, but I don't even use it.
Might need to start building up social profiles again :/
Hinge
Started Hinge last night.
Haven't paid for premium yet.
~8 messages
Matched twice
Got 1 number.
Badoo
Gonna try and sign up as soon as I'm done writing this.
OVERALL
Running Total:
5 #s/60 matches
70-80 likes.
Might use this format/might not.
One thing I really want to do is post weekly updates on stats messages/boosts/matches/numbers etc.
Think it would be beneficial to myself and others if we can see how it's going. I've been pretty candid about the approach stuff, so might as well do it here.
@Master What other apps seem to be popular in Canada?
Bumble/Hinge/Badoo (I think)/Tinder. Anything else?
You're 100% right about this. I need the reps.
- Master
- Posts: 285 | Thanks: 378
- Joined: Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:52 pm
- Name: Maxime
- Goal: Get laid
- Age: 27
- Motto: Stay hard - David Goggins
I'm mainly on Tinder(#1), Fruitz(#2), Badoo(#3), Bumble(#4), Havent had any luck with hinge but it might just be a quebec thing lol.Manganiello wrote: βFri Sep 10, 2021 2:53 amSept 9
@Master What other apps seem to be popular in Canada?
Bumble/Hinge/Badoo (I think)/Tinder. Anything else?
Fruitz is a up and coming platform, got 2 lays in the first 2 weeks of using it, def try it out.
Good shit on starting your profile hope you can have tons of success. Your photos are great man!
I also responded to Toast questions he had on your behalf I believe!
Short term goals
[*] Take awesome tinder photos β
[*] Reach 175lbs (currently 178)
[*] 5 lays by the end 2021 (12/5) β
[*] 20 lays by the end 2021 (12/20)
Long term goals
[*] Beat AA program (Started June 5)
[*] 10-12% bodyfat
[*] 25 Lifetime Lays (15/30)
[*] Take awesome tinder photos β
[*] Reach 175lbs (currently 178)
[*] 5 lays by the end 2021 (12/5) β
[*] 20 lays by the end 2021 (12/20)
Long term goals
[*] Beat AA program (Started June 5)
[*] 10-12% bodyfat
[*] 25 Lifetime Lays (15/30)
- Manganiello
- Posts: 1710 | Thanks: 2021
- Joined: Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:25 am
- Name: Brandon
- Goal: Career Launch
- Age: 33
- Motto: Embrace your Darkside
- Location: Seoul
Sept 10
Got laid.
+ 30 matches today
(I'll put today's stats at the bottom.)
First Online Lay
So I got laid, this one belongs to @Radical. He got me to do online, and also got me to push for sex when I'm not feeling it.
Summary:
- Went straight to her place (no date)
- Watched a movie, drank ciders and MACA (thanks @Crisis_Overcomer ) cuz I wasn't feelin it.
- I hesitated to make a move for 30 minutes, Made a move, but didn't escalate after that.
- 90 minutes in, she escalates, makeout>clothes off>foreplay>little bit of sex.
- Still had trouble getting hard, so I think I'll get some ED pills or something.
- Felt very one night stand-like. Which is 100% ok with me.
How it went down
So this lay was basically handed to me.
I'm not terribly attracted to this chick. We went out for coffee Wed. She was cool.
She wanted to see me Friday, same cafe.
Cool.
She texted me saying she wanted to go straight to her place instead
Cool.
Got there.
I wasn't horny, was trying the whole time to think about sex with this girl, but we ended up just chatting like friends.
Put on a movie, she sat close. I hesitated. Nothing happened. She sat far away.
30 minutes in,
I get her to touch my chest, put her hand underneath my shirt.
She likes it but pulls away. I don't bother cycling again.
90 minutes in
She puts her leg on my leg. She's shaking a bit. I tell her that, put my arm around her and then start making out. Clothes come off. And I went down on her. Pretty fun. First time eating a girl out.
Lots of foreplay.
Tried putting it in.
I got in her for like 2 seconds, but I was so limp it was pointless. Got her to ride me.
Then she said "I'm gonna throw up" (guess she drank too much). Maybe or I wasn't all that hard. Probably both.
She was super wet, I was only mildly into it. Honestly.
I had to close my eyes and just let my sense take over,
It was fun, but idk If I'd see her again. We'll see. I'll let her text me 1st.
Thoughts
Not getting high off my own supply
So getting laid after 3 days of using Tinder is pretty cool...
But I don't want to walk into this with false expectations. Sure I'm getting a ton of matches, but I cant get high on my own supply. Hard work, learning from others and playing the numbers game got this result, not some self-aggrandized trait about myself. And I still have a lot to work on.
Dopamine hit from Online vs. Cold Approach
It seems like online is about a billion times easier than cold approach.
But the Cold Approach Lay felt like it changed my world.
The girl in Toronto was fucking hot af. Korean. and it was from a cold approach that was difficult to pull off, plus a date that was hard to pull on + 20 minutes of bedroom resistance. I just felt awesome about that one. Felt like I broke the universe, and did something that should be impossible to do. I realized I was breathing rare air after that lay. This one... ok cool. If this girl was more my type I'd probably feel more enthralled about it.
Tinder
2 #s
10 ongoing convos
22 Matches
33 Likes
3 Boosts (6pm, 8pm, 10pm) 8pm did best.
Hinge
0 #s
1 ongoing convo
4 matches
4 likes
Badoo
0 #s
1 conversation dead
4 matches
8 likes
Some girls on Badoo are cute, but most look like crack addicts, it's really fucking weird out there.
OVERALL
Day 4 - Running Total
7 numbers/~90 matches
110-120 likes
6 Boosts used.
Oh ya Plus One approach. Was kinda drunk still, and just finished texting Toast about the lay. Had a BF but still got the number. 2nd day in a row I've had very little AA.
Thanks man, got lots of help with the photos.
And Hinge is fucking awesome here. Tons of hot girls. Got 1 date setup from it.
I'll try Fruitz. Thank you for pointing that one out.
Any feedback is much appreciated thank you dear Mr. Master!
Got laid.
+ 30 matches today
(I'll put today's stats at the bottom.)
First Online Lay
So I got laid, this one belongs to @Radical. He got me to do online, and also got me to push for sex when I'm not feeling it.
Summary:
- Went straight to her place (no date)
- Watched a movie, drank ciders and MACA (thanks @Crisis_Overcomer ) cuz I wasn't feelin it.
- I hesitated to make a move for 30 minutes, Made a move, but didn't escalate after that.
- 90 minutes in, she escalates, makeout>clothes off>foreplay>little bit of sex.
- Still had trouble getting hard, so I think I'll get some ED pills or something.
- Felt very one night stand-like. Which is 100% ok with me.
How it went down
So this lay was basically handed to me.
I'm not terribly attracted to this chick. We went out for coffee Wed. She was cool.
She wanted to see me Friday, same cafe.
Cool.
She texted me saying she wanted to go straight to her place instead
Cool.
Got there.
I wasn't horny, was trying the whole time to think about sex with this girl, but we ended up just chatting like friends.
Put on a movie, she sat close. I hesitated. Nothing happened. She sat far away.
30 minutes in,
I get her to touch my chest, put her hand underneath my shirt.
She likes it but pulls away. I don't bother cycling again.
90 minutes in
She puts her leg on my leg. She's shaking a bit. I tell her that, put my arm around her and then start making out. Clothes come off. And I went down on her. Pretty fun. First time eating a girl out.
Lots of foreplay.
Tried putting it in.
I got in her for like 2 seconds, but I was so limp it was pointless. Got her to ride me.
Then she said "I'm gonna throw up" (guess she drank too much). Maybe or I wasn't all that hard. Probably both.
She was super wet, I was only mildly into it. Honestly.
I had to close my eyes and just let my sense take over,
It was fun, but idk If I'd see her again. We'll see. I'll let her text me 1st.
Thoughts
Not getting high off my own supply
So getting laid after 3 days of using Tinder is pretty cool...
But I don't want to walk into this with false expectations. Sure I'm getting a ton of matches, but I cant get high on my own supply. Hard work, learning from others and playing the numbers game got this result, not some self-aggrandized trait about myself. And I still have a lot to work on.
Dopamine hit from Online vs. Cold Approach
It seems like online is about a billion times easier than cold approach.
But the Cold Approach Lay felt like it changed my world.
The girl in Toronto was fucking hot af. Korean. and it was from a cold approach that was difficult to pull off, plus a date that was hard to pull on + 20 minutes of bedroom resistance. I just felt awesome about that one. Felt like I broke the universe, and did something that should be impossible to do. I realized I was breathing rare air after that lay. This one... ok cool. If this girl was more my type I'd probably feel more enthralled about it.
Tinder
2 #s
10 ongoing convos
22 Matches
33 Likes
3 Boosts (6pm, 8pm, 10pm) 8pm did best.
Hinge
0 #s
1 ongoing convo
4 matches
4 likes
Badoo
0 #s
1 conversation dead
4 matches
8 likes
Some girls on Badoo are cute, but most look like crack addicts, it's really fucking weird out there.
OVERALL
Day 4 - Running Total
7 numbers/~90 matches
110-120 likes
6 Boosts used.
Oh ya Plus One approach. Was kinda drunk still, and just finished texting Toast about the lay. Had a BF but still got the number. 2nd day in a row I've had very little AA.
I saw that. Thanks for the answers. Dunno how you're converting that well. If I can do those conversions I'll be golden. I'm just focusing hard on numbers.Master wrote: βFri Sep 10, 2021 10:18 pmI'm mainly on Tinder(#1), Fruitz(#2), Badoo(#3), Bumble(#4), Havent had any luck with hinge but it might just be a quebec thing lol.
Fruitz is a up and coming platform, got 2 lays in the first 2 weeks of using it, def try it out.
Good shit on starting your profile hope you can have tons of success. Your photos are great man!
I also responded to Toast questions he had on your behalf I believe!
Thanks man, got lots of help with the photos.
And Hinge is fucking awesome here. Tons of hot girls. Got 1 date setup from it.
I'll try Fruitz. Thank you for pointing that one out.
Any feedback is much appreciated thank you dear Mr. Master!
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- MakingAComeback
- Posts: 4253 | Thanks: 4963
- Joined: Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:17 pm
- Goal: 3k Per Month Post Tax
- Age: 32
- Motto: POSITIVE SELF TALK
Well done man
I think OLD will work for you, so you should dive RIGHT in and get the most out of it. Your stats are encouraging. Do you know I used it for 3 months, did 2 boosts every day, 300 messages on Hinge a day stuff like that, and you already have 10x the matches and traction I got. As such, I think you need to make OLD a staple. Some guys it works for, I think you are one.
Keep hammering,
MAC
I think OLD will work for you, so you should dive RIGHT in and get the most out of it. Your stats are encouraging. Do you know I used it for 3 months, did 2 boosts every day, 300 messages on Hinge a day stuff like that, and you already have 10x the matches and traction I got. As such, I think you need to make OLD a staple. Some guys it works for, I think you are one.
Keep hammering,
MAC
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- Manganiello
- Posts: 1710 | Thanks: 2021
- Joined: Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:25 am
- Name: Brandon
- Goal: Career Launch
- Age: 33
- Motto: Embrace your Darkside
- Location: Seoul
Thanks MAC. Wow, I think that just shows how important a good profile is. There's a big inequality on OLD. If you have a top level profile you get many times more matches than an average profile. I read the number somewhere, but I forget what it was. It's VERY lopsided.MakingAComeback wrote: βSat Sep 11, 2021 7:05 amWell done man
I think OLD will work for you, so you should dive RIGHT in and get the most out of it. Your stats are encouraging. Do you know I used it for 3 months, did 2 boosts every day, 300 messages on Hinge a day stuff like that, and you already have 10x the matches and traction I got. As such, I think you need to make OLD a staple. Some guys it works for, I think you are one.
Keep hammering,
MAC
Keep working on yourself. I'm 60 lbs. lighter.
This was me a little over 2 years ago: Once you get decent pictures let others tear them apart so you know what to aim for.
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- Rags2Bitches
- Posts: 199 | Thanks: 206
- Joined: Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:49 am
- Name: Andrey
- Goal: Build service biz
- Age: 31
- Location: TX
- Contact:
lol fuck offff. i have a lot of respect for you and you have 5x my work ethic, but come on. βsome guys it works forβMakingAComeback wrote: βSat Sep 11, 2021 7:05 amWell done man
I think OLD will work for you, so you should dive RIGHT in and get the most out of it. Your stats are encouraging. Do you know I used it for 3 months, did 2 boosts every day, 300 messages on Hinge a day stuff like that, and you already have 10x the matches and traction I got. As such, I think you need to make OLD a staple. Some guys it works for, I think you are one.
Keep hammering,
MAC
about a week ago i was ranting about the forum and talking shit to Radical about how @Manganiello has a long road ahead cause that first round of pics he posted was awfullll. i downloaded some of them and tried to edit them and got discouraged.
note, i didnβt talk about you cause i thought his situation was harder. then he took 10x better pics, edited them, got laid and is killing it online.
sending ____ number of messages may feel like work but itβs not actually getting you anywhere. what moves the needle in OLD is taking new photos. get after it
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- Jacobpalmer123
- Posts: 440 | Thanks: 114
- Joined: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:38 am
- Goal: 1-3 daily approaches
- Age: 28
- Motto: All progress depends on the unreasonable man
nice work on the online lay. Took a little while but doesn't matter still got laid though
Get a tech job
Get 2 lays
Get 2 lays
- Radical
- Posts: 1726 | Thanks: 1441
- Joined: Sat May 30, 2020 12:02 pm
- Name: Cam
- Goal: Funnel/Product Building
- Age: 29
- Motto: Take drastic action
FUCK YEAH DUDE
And you will randomly get top class lays off online, its all numbers
Bear in mind what @KillYourInnerLoser has achieved from online
Let the momentum of this lay carry over into your approaches and double down on the effort
And you will randomly get top class lays off online, its all numbers
Bear in mind what @KillYourInnerLoser has achieved from online
Let the momentum of this lay carry over into your approaches and double down on the effort
- Toast
- Posts: 872 | Thanks: 1106
- Joined: Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:31 am
- Name: Devin
- Goal: Japanese Plate
- Age: 29
- Motto: The Time to Hesitate Has Ceased
- Location: Tokyo
- Contact:
Very nice my man.
non action keeps her wanting MORE. At the very end she will be extra horny. Works 100% of the time.
Tip to you is to put on LORT Extended trilogy and not make a single move until the very end. That way yourManganiello wrote: βSat Sep 11, 2021 7:01 amPut on a movie, she sat close. I hesitated. Nothing happened. She sat far away.
30 minutes in,
I get her to touch my chest, put her hand underneath my shirt.
She likes it but pulls away. I don't bother cycling again.
90 minutes in
She puts her leg on my leg. She's shaking a bit. I tell her that, put my arm around her and then start making out.
non action keeps her wanting MORE. At the very end she will be extra horny. Works 100% of the time.
- Manganiello
- Posts: 1710 | Thanks: 2021
- Joined: Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:25 am
- Name: Brandon
- Goal: Career Launch
- Age: 33
- Motto: Embrace your Darkside
- Location: Seoul
Nice.Rags2Bitches wrote: βSat Sep 11, 2021 9:00 amabout a week ago i was ranting about the forum and talking shit to Radical about how @Manganiello has a long road ahead cause that first round of pics he posted was awfullll. i downloaded some of them and tried to edit them and got discouraged.
Next time be more candid. Hiding that stuff and giving me nice + helpful advice is not as good as brutally honest feedback. That hinders my progress. In the end being kind and brutally honest with someone are the same thing.
I had a good idea of what to aim for in a profile, probably why it's been working. But ya you don't need to hide anything. Best things I've done in my life are when people call on me to do better.
Seriously thanks for the help tho.
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- Manganiello
- Posts: 1710 | Thanks: 2021
- Joined: Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:25 am
- Name: Brandon
- Goal: Career Launch
- Age: 33
- Motto: Embrace your Darkside
- Location: Seoul
Lol thanks man.
That's encouraging. I'm mostly matching with average girls but every now and then a smoking hot girl gets into a convo. Got 1 # from a girl hyper my type but she dropped off.
Yah. Can't rest on my laurels.
None of this would've happened had @KillYourInnerLoser not made his guide.
Makes you wonder how many lays the guy has helped other guys get. I'm sure it's in the high hundreds if not thousands.
You mean the 90 minute delayed escalation?Jacobpalmer123 wrote: βSat Sep 11, 2021 9:15 amnice work on the online lay. Took a little while but doesn't matter still got laid though
That's something I really need to work on.
Or just long in general to go online?
- Crisis_Overcomer
- Posts: 1026 | Thanks: 736
- Joined: Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:25 pm
- Goal: Earn $5,000/month
- Age: 33
- Motto: Motion beats meditation
Can't believe you didn't insist he mentions his KYIL likes. Over 1,000 likes are guaranteed to make any girl wet.
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- MILFandCookies
- Posts: 1207 | Thanks: 588
- Joined: Wed Sep 16, 2020 12:29 am
- Name: Joe
- Goal: $10k+/month
- Age: 31
- Motto: Unchain your Passion & Live Life on Your Own Terms
- Location: Austin, TX/World
- Contact:
Yeah boiii! Keep it up!Manganiello wrote: βSat Sep 11, 2021 7:01 amSept 10
Got laid.
+ 30 matches today
(I'll put today's stats at the bottom.)
First Online Lay
So I got laid, this one belongs to @Radical. He got me to do online, and also got me to push for sex when I'm not feeling it.
Summary:
- Went straight to her place (no date)
- Watched a movie, drank ciders and MACA (thanks @Crisis_Overcomer ) cuz I wasn't feelin it.
- I hesitated to make a move for 30 minutes, Made a move, but didn't escalate after that.
- 90 minutes in, she escalates, makeout>clothes off>foreplay>little bit of sex.
- Still had trouble getting hard, so I think I'll get some ED pills or something.
- Felt very one night stand-like. Which is 100% ok with me.
How it went down
So this lay was basically handed to me.
I'm not terribly attracted to this chick. We went out for coffee Wed. She was cool.
She wanted to see me Friday, same cafe.
Cool.
She texted me saying she wanted to go straight to her place instead
Cool.
Got there.
I wasn't horny, was trying the whole time to think about sex with this girl, but we ended up just chatting like friends.
Put on a movie, she sat close. I hesitated. Nothing happened. She sat far away.
30 minutes in,
I get her to touch my chest, put her hand underneath my shirt.
She likes it but pulls away. I don't bother cycling again.
90 minutes in
She puts her leg on my leg. She's shaking a bit. I tell her that, put my arm around her and then start making out. Clothes come off. And I went down on her. Pretty fun. First time eating a girl out.
Lots of foreplay.
Tried putting it in.
I got in her for like 2 seconds, but I was so limp it was pointless. Got her to ride me.
Then she said "I'm gonna throw up" (guess she drank too much). Maybe or I wasn't all that hard. Probably both.
She was super wet, I was only mildly into it. Honestly.
I had to close my eyes and just let my sense take over,
It was fun, but idk If I'd see her again. We'll see. I'll let her text me 1st.
Thoughts
Not getting high off my own supply
So getting laid after 3 days of using Tinder is pretty cool...
But I don't want to walk into this with false expectations. Sure I'm getting a ton of matches, but I cant get high on my own supply. Hard work, learning from others and playing the numbers game got this result, not some self-aggrandized trait about myself. And I still have a lot to work on.
Dopamine hit from Online vs. Cold Approach
It seems like online is about a billion times easier than cold approach.
But the Cold Approach Lay felt like it changed my world.
The girl in Toronto was fucking hot af. Korean. and it was from a cold approach that was difficult to pull off, plus a date that was hard to pull on + 20 minutes of bedroom resistance. I just felt awesome about that one. Felt like I broke the universe, and did something that should be impossible to do. I realized I was breathing rare air after that lay. This one... ok cool. If this girl was more my type I'd probably feel more enthralled about it.
Tinder
2 #s
10 ongoing convos
22 Matches
33 Likes
3 Boosts (6pm, 8pm, 10pm) 8pm did best.
Hinge
0 #s
1 ongoing convo
4 matches
4 likes
Badoo
0 #s
1 conversation dead
4 matches
8 likes
Some girls on Badoo are cute, but most look like crack addicts, it's really fucking weird out there.
OVERALL
Day 4 - Running Total
7 numbers/~90 matches
110-120 likes
6 Boosts used.
Oh ya Plus One approach. Was kinda drunk still, and just finished texting Toast about the lay. Had a BF but still got the number. 2nd day in a row I've had very little AA.
I saw that. Thanks for the answers. Dunno how you're converting that well. If I can do those conversions I'll be golden. I'm just focusing hard on numbers.Master wrote: βFri Sep 10, 2021 10:18 pmI'm mainly on Tinder(#1), Fruitz(#2), Badoo(#3), Bumble(#4), Havent had any luck with hinge but it might just be a quebec thing lol.
Fruitz is a up and coming platform, got 2 lays in the first 2 weeks of using it, def try it out.
Good shit on starting your profile hope you can have tons of success. Your photos are great man!
I also responded to Toast questions he had on your behalf I believe!
Thanks man, got lots of help with the photos.
And Hinge is fucking awesome here. Tons of hot girls. Got 1 date setup from it.
I'll try Fruitz. Thank you for pointing that one out.
Any feedback is much appreciated thank you dear Mr. Master!
I've helped > 100 guys get laid on dating apps.
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Goal 1:
β’ Build + maintain $10k+ profit/month
Goal 2:
β’ Cut some fat to get abs again