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Just got back from Vegas, and it was…
Well, actually it was pretty normal. Other than the fact that I pulled 6 out of the last 8 nights out.
So weird, doesn’t even feel like a big deal.
And I can’t figure why it’s been so easy. The chicks were HOT. Like all 8+
The only commonality that I can find is they were all 10-15 minute pulls, sometimes the first set of the night, sometimes the last…
It’s about my 5 year anniversary in the game, so I’m just chalking it up as a leveling up, and a nice bonus after the hard work I’ve put in since the beginning of 2012.
What I’d like to talk about this week was THE MAIN REASON i've had so much success lately, specifically quitting alcohol and the 3 biggest sticking points that I uncovered after starting to game sober.
So check out the vid, which gives not only the sticking points, but how I over came them.

I’ve explained this in other articles before, so I’m not going to go too in depth here, but suffice it to say, most people use alcohol to change their physiology and mental headspace.
One of the biggest aspects of self development is to master the control over your emotions and mental thoughts, so why would you rely on a poison to do that for you?
Sure, it’s an easy shortcut, but in the long run the results are SO MUCH BETTER once you learn how to do everything without any crutches.
And hence, the old skool momentum builder techniques and small chunking the process mentioned in the video.
From there, I started working on higher risk approaches, which helped me quickly transition through my next sticking point.

I haven’t had this problem EVER until I stopped drinking.
But, all of a sudden, my conversations were BORING, and I’d get stuck on stupid conversational threads.
The technique I used to get out of this problem was to start cutting conversational threads quickly.
As you cut more and more, the conversation starts to build momentum, and as you cut more threads, push up the pressure, start owning the conversation more, you can slowly transition into a more sexworthy/man-to-woman type of interaction.
By you decisively leading the interaction she begins to follow, allowing for an easy transition, just realize that she might unconsciously stick with the old frame of conversation, so you have to be decisive here and push through any resistance in the direction you want.
This technique isn’t just related to the alcohol problem, but ANY TIME you are falling into friend-to-friend communication, start cutting threads and changing the topic of conversation, transitioning into a more intimate sexual tone.

The last big sticking point I had was taking any risk at the end of the interaction.
I think one artifact of this was that when you are drunk, your standards are lower, so once you lock in with that average looking girl, you sink in the claws and persist until the end. But when you are sober, you’re constantly vacillating, trying to determine if this girl is hot enough, if it’s too early in the night and you should go see what other girls are in the venue, if she’s receptive enough to invest time in the pull, and all sort of other questions that make you indecisive on the pull.
So at some point, once you lock in, make that firm decision to push it as far as you can with the girl you’re with. Also, just talk to hotter girls, and this problem won’t be as much of an issue either. Haha

It’s funny how I spent the better part of 18 months trying to figure out what my sticking points were, and the second I cut out the booze, 3 huge problems pop up real quick. Alcohol smoothed out many of these problems, but the side effects, especially the loss of strategic level thinking, were just too larger to ignore.
So I have a mission for you, depending on your level of alcohol consumption.
If you are a drinker… Hurrah! Cheers, let’s grab a drink some time, but NOT IN THE CLUB!
Try to cut back on the spectrum:
Drinking booze>Drinking Beer>Drinking ½ Beer/Water>Drinking Water and Sugar Free Redbulls
You say you drink beer because vodka sodas have less calories????
SORRY! That will be a nice leverage point to quit the beer completely, the goal is to first move down the spectrum of alcohol reliance.
From there, hit up the next mission, which if you aren’t drinking alcohol anyway, you can also apply:
Push to do the hard risk approaches!
Here’s the one I want you to do…
Find a group of 2 or more girls seated down talking to each other.
Pick one girl, go up, put out your hand, and grab her attention by yelling “Ay!”
Grab her hand, and decisively make her stand up.
Then say something direct like “You’re cute/hot/adorable/etc.” and proceed from there.
Then do it again until you are comfortable with it and it hooks well.
Comment below with your results. :)
Have a good weekend and here’s to me being awesome.
Just got back from Vegas, and it was…
Well, actually it was pretty normal. Other than the fact that I pulled 6 out of the last 8 nights out.
So weird, doesn’t even feel like a big deal.
And I can’t figure why it’s been so easy. The chicks were HOT. Like all 8+
The only commonality that I can find is they were all 10-15 minute pulls, sometimes the first set of the night, sometimes the last…
It’s about my 5 year anniversary in the game, so I’m just chalking it up as a leveling up, and a nice bonus after the hard work I’ve put in since the beginning of 2012.
What I’d like to talk about this week was THE MAIN REASON i've had so much success lately, specifically quitting alcohol and the 3 biggest sticking points that I uncovered after starting to game sober.
So check out the vid, which gives not only the sticking points, but how I over came them.

I’ve explained this in other articles before, so I’m not going to go too in depth here, but suffice it to say, most people use alcohol to change their physiology and mental headspace.
One of the biggest aspects of self development is to master the control over your emotions and mental thoughts, so why would you rely on a poison to do that for you?
Sure, it’s an easy shortcut, but in the long run the results are SO MUCH BETTER once you learn how to do everything without any crutches.
And hence, the old skool momentum builder techniques and small chunking the process mentioned in the video.
From there, I started working on higher risk approaches, which helped me quickly transition through my next sticking point.

I haven’t had this problem EVER until I stopped drinking.
But, all of a sudden, my conversations were BORING, and I’d get stuck on stupid conversational threads.
The technique I used to get out of this problem was to start cutting conversational threads quickly.
As you cut more and more, the conversation starts to build momentum, and as you cut more threads, push up the pressure, start owning the conversation more, you can slowly transition into a more sexworthy/man-to-woman type of interaction.
By you decisively leading the interaction she begins to follow, allowing for an easy transition, just realize that she might unconsciously stick with the old frame of conversation, so you have to be decisive here and push through any resistance in the direction you want.
This technique isn’t just related to the alcohol problem, but ANY TIME you are falling into friend-to-friend communication, start cutting threads and changing the topic of conversation, transitioning into a more intimate sexual tone.

The last big sticking point I had was taking any risk at the end of the interaction.
I think one artifact of this was that when you are drunk, your standards are lower, so once you lock in with that average looking girl, you sink in the claws and persist until the end. But when you are sober, you’re constantly vacillating, trying to determine if this girl is hot enough, if it’s too early in the night and you should go see what other girls are in the venue, if she’s receptive enough to invest time in the pull, and all sort of other questions that make you indecisive on the pull.
So at some point, once you lock in, make that firm decision to push it as far as you can with the girl you’re with. Also, just talk to hotter girls, and this problem won’t be as much of an issue either. Haha

It’s funny how I spent the better part of 18 months trying to figure out what my sticking points were, and the second I cut out the booze, 3 huge problems pop up real quick. Alcohol smoothed out many of these problems, but the side effects, especially the loss of strategic level thinking, were just too larger to ignore.
So I have a mission for you, depending on your level of alcohol consumption.
If you are a drinker… Hurrah! Cheers, let’s grab a drink some time, but NOT IN THE CLUB!
Try to cut back on the spectrum:
Drinking booze>Drinking Beer>Drinking ½ Beer/Water>Drinking Water and Sugar Free Redbulls
You say you drink beer because vodka sodas have less calories????
SORRY! That will be a nice leverage point to quit the beer completely, the goal is to first move down the spectrum of alcohol reliance.
From there, hit up the next mission, which if you aren’t drinking alcohol anyway, you can also apply:
Push to do the hard risk approaches!
Here’s the one I want you to do…
Find a group of 2 or more girls seated down talking to each other.
Pick one girl, go up, put out your hand, and grab her attention by yelling “Ay!”
Grab her hand, and decisively make her stand up.
Then say something direct like “You’re cute/hot/adorable/etc.” and proceed from there.
Then do it again until you are comfortable with it and it hooks well.
Comment below with your results. :)
Have a good weekend and here’s to me being awesome.




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braulioloz87
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Just quit boozing when in-field myself: graduated college- Time to be a big boy ; )- sorta the next step in taking this craft seriously and making it a little more of a focus and a job-having fun isn't an issue for me, it's sorta the other way around : )
I'm going to implement the action plan and post it up on my field report.
I really connected with the friendly convo stuff. In a recent field report I wrote about going out sober, I phrased it as being, "Super rapport man", like I would approach but then just fall back on that sorta, "normal", "easy" convo material that doesn't progress the convo forward, but still gives you that validation of the girl sticking around and engaging in conversation with you- just another mask that I put on to hide from the reality of what I really want- to hide from the intent. Cool Post man. You're shit is real money.
You're Killin it,
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great article as always.
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Just quit boozing when in-field myself: graduated college- Time to be a big boy ; )- sorta the next step in taking this craft seriously and making it a little more of a focus and a job-having fun isn't an issue for me, it's sorta the other way around : )
I'm going to implement the action plan and post it up on my field report.
I really connected with the friendly convo stuff. In a recent field report I wrote about going out sober, I phrased it as being, "Super rapport man", like I would approach but then just fall back on that sorta, "normal", "easy" convo material that doesn't progress the convo forward, but still gives you that validation of the girl sticking around and engaging in conversation with you- just another mask that I put on to hide from the reality of what I really want- to hide from the intent. Cool Post man. You're shit is real money.
You're Killin it,
BG
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great article as always.
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lol'ed so hard
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Funny thing is, personally i go in my head when i get drunk. I go all introverted. Kinda the opposite what you would expect.
Either side of drunk, either on the upswing or coming back out to sober is when ive always had good results.
Cheers Brad.
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That was all helpful, thanks!
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The net effect is a real slow increase in muscle mass, and an even slower cutting where the muscle definition is REAL SLOWLY getting better and better.
I like it better than bulk//cut style though because I always stay lean and look good, its just slower to seeing progress...
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I am looking forward to more of your posts on this topic to see how it is going.
One more reason to stop relying on poison is no one wants a whiskey dick either.
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The net effect is a real slow increase in muscle mass, and an even slower cutting where the muscle definition is REAL SLOWLY getting better and better.
I like it better than bulk//cut style though because I always stay lean and look good, its just slower to seeing progress...
A pound a week slow?! What program are you following? Something like Stronglifts 5x5 or Starting Strength?
Nice article, really clicks with the Booze is Bad Good State idea.
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3 sets of 5 for strength building, 3 sets of 10 with 30-60 second rest periods for mass building.
It's a routine a former client of mine who's worked with professional athletes set up for me.
Works fantastic, I see obvious strength and mass gains every session... (besides the PUMP from blood flow)
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haha. whats going on with you guys? you're winning by a long shot, it seems.
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3 sets of 5 for strength building, 3 sets of 10 with 30-60 second rest periods for mass building.
It's a routine a former client of mine who's worked with professional athletes set up for me.
Works fantastic, I see obvious strength and mass gains every session... (besides the PUMP from blood flow)
Do you do split/ full body and how many times a week?
Where did you get the time to work out when you RSD guys are always travelling, doing bootcamps and freetours?
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recently i do not want to drink at all because like you said Brad it lowers your awareness and ability to think clearly AND you're not able to enjoy the interactions fully.
i drank one time and witnessed that i wasn't able to think, talk, calibrate as clearly as usual.
if you ever try it to do it sober and stick to it long enough (until your results get back to the level they were before) you will never go back because you're more aware, faster and enjoy your time more!
Thx Brad for this article, it reinforces my beliefs that this is the only way to go long term and that i will stick to doing it sober
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With those riskier approaches I also began to focus more on my eye contact and using less words in the interactions and I find that the results are surprisly amazing (probably because I get faster in the man to woman frame).
Great article/video Brad!
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Funny thing is, personally i go in my head when i get drunk. I go all introverted. Kinda the opposite what you would expect.
Either side of drunk, either on the upswing or coming back out to sober is when ive always had good results.
Cheers Brad.
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With those riskier approaches I also began to focus more on my eye contact and using less words in the interactions and I find that the results are surprisly amazing (probably because I get faster in the man to woman frame).
Great article/video Brad!
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Before quitting alcohol, Brad had ONE sticking point: LOGISTICS of the PULL.
After quitting alcohol, Brad had THREE sticking points: TWO new ones (Approach Anxiety / Lack of State and FriendZoning aka Lack of Dominantly Leading) PLUS the ORIGINAL sticking point: LOGISTICS of the PULL.
So if quitting alcohol didn't even "instantly" solve your original sticking point but "instantly" gave you 2 new ones instead, then while you still needed to "put in time & effort" to solve the original sticking point while sober, plus 2 new ones, wouldn't it have been justified to just "put in" the same "time & effort" solving the original sticking point of logistics of the pull while drunk rather than sacrificing 2 perfectly good strengths that alcohol gives you? I mean, from my point of view, solving 1 sticking point while drunk sounds simpler to do that solving the exact same sticking point plus 2 more while sober...
Basically all I'm saying is that when I read Tyler's stuff I'm pretty convinced that quitting drinking is a good idea if not anything but for better long term health, but after I watched your video it sounded like the "performance boost" of gaming drunk greatly outweighs the so called "benefits" of gaming sober so by the end of your video I was like "wtf... Brad TOTALLY CONVINCED me to NEVER game sober again!!!" ...so thanks for being so "convincing" lol
Maybe Alex should write a future article on "How to game effectively while drunk" as I've heard Tyler describe him as: "All Alex from RSD does is drink, game girls, and work for RSD" haha
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Alex pulls drunk.
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But this was real stuff,
got a question for ya.
Is there anything besides high risk approaches?
its probably because my goals are heavily involved with core confidence, and growing in my masculinity all through my life. high risk has that double whammy of of increasing your trust in yourself , your self respect and sense on manlyness /confidence plus it sets the frame properly.
now heres the thing i dont really know how else to get that attraction, basicly any lack of attraction i trace back to not comin in hard and real enough. somewhere i either get more hesistant and it comes through in my subs, probably in eyecontact and maybe voice in how unreactive my responces are.
the only other way i can think of is maybr going old school funny aproach or like lame oldschool statepump stuff, but who the fuck wants that
besides high risk is all about the strong intent and fully putting yourself outthere vulnerable and standing behind your action. you can combine that with saying some funny or whatever energy, it doesnt need to be super verbally direct as long as demand alot of intention and in a way is a little scary for you.
im wonder because you described it liek there is a choice, i mainly come on to check owens vids so i tought this is all rsd did.
the way i see it, ya got, high risk, intent , standing behind your actions to pass the quote unquote tests, lead and escalate with self trust (more quote unquote high risk) and during you can just express yourself in a spectrum and different combinations of masculine energy mixed with warm , sexual and ''funny'' energy..
about the framing i totally feel ya, ya basicly got crack at in ya head shake it around until youve shaped the idea in a way that you can get to that permanent descision that its bitch bullshit . and not look back.
nice post. oh so yeah if you still readin responces get at me, interested in your views.
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Yeah, that's why in the video I talk about how it takes MULTIPLE times to get it right and have the proper confidence behind it.
How many times has Kobe practiced dunking with his left hand?
His right?
Alley oop style?
That's how you get the confidence to do it right. Go try it 100 more times. :)
Thanks for trying it out!
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Way to represent Wisconsin.
Respect.
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It's a central nervous system depressant. You aren't going to "solve" being slow and stupid while drunk by somehow magically willing yourself to do so
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Before quitting alcohol, Brad had ONE sticking point: LOGISTICS of the PULL.
After quitting alcohol, Brad had THREE sticking points: TWO new ones (Approach Anxiety / Lack of State and FriendZoning aka Lack of Dominantly Leading) PLUS the ORIGINAL sticking point: LOGISTICS of the PULL.
So if quitting alcohol didn't even "instantly" solve your original sticking point but "instantly" gave you 2 new ones instead, then while you still needed to "put in time & effort" to solve the original sticking point while sober, plus 2 new ones, wouldn't it have been justified to just "put in" the same "time & effort" solving the original sticking point of logistics of the pull while drunk rather than sacrificing 2 perfectly good strengths that alcohol gives you? I mean, from my point of view, solving 1 sticking point while drunk sounds simpler to do that solving the exact same sticking point plus 2 more while sober...
Basically all I'm saying is that when I read Tyler's stuff I'm pretty convinced that quitting drinking is a good idea if not anything but for better long term health, but after I watched your video it sounded like the "performance boost" of gaming drunk greatly outweighs the so called "benefits" of gaming sober so by the end of your video I was like "wtf... Brad TOTALLY CONVINCED me to NEVER game sober again!!!" ...so thanks for being so "convincing" lol
Maybe Alex should write a future article on "How to game effectively while drunk" as I've heard Tyler describe him as: "All Alex from RSD does is drink, game girls, and work for RSD" haha
"One of the biggest aspects of self development is to master the control over your emotions and mental thoughts, so why would you rely on a poison to do that for you?
Sure, it’s an easy shortcut, but in the long run the results are SO MUCH BETTER once you learn how to do everything without any crutches."
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I find alcohol and drugs to be the biggest hindrance to game.
Nothing about it is in the least bit attractive.
To me, its common sense. Fatties, stop drinking.
Women do not find being inebriated attractive even by someone good looking and naturally attractive.
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The long and short of it was that, he ended up spending the night hugging the toilet, and I ended up crashing a bachelorette party before stealing grey goose(did not drink), bathroom pulling (never finished), booted by security, and a black club promoter (looking at you Madison) kicked me out.
Apparently, this promoter fella felt entitled to the girl I picked up, and since, he was the one to set them up in a booth VIP style, he felt it meant he was gonna deliver some bbc.
He was greatly mistaken.
People rely on these stimuli cause they feel inadequate and not enough from the start.
This is what needs curving and correcting. Alcohol for pick up and drugs is for the weak.
Black Brad Pitt has just left the building!
It's a central nervous system depressant. You aren't going to "solve" being slow and stupid while drunk by somehow magically willing yourself to do so
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