Is it possible to pick up something decent if you're asian and not bruce lee?
03-15-2011, 03:44 PM
It's funny, I used to read roosh's blog as a guilty pleasure.
Being asian, some of his aggressive (to my mind) views on getting girls were a bit confronting. Even the title to his book was a bit too upfront for my asian sensibilities.
On the flip side, I couldn't stop myself reading because his totally 'asian' approach to overcoming a problem touched me. I mean, he used a lot of in-field experimentation and had a firm grip on numbers and graphs.
The asian nerd in me was bedazzled and seduced by this dark side of Science and Math.
I mean this is the first guy to approach the whole love-game from a REAL scientific perspective, as opposed to just jazzing up some pop-psychology bullshit with jargon like mystery does.
He manages to break the game down mathematically and empirically yet explains it all in layman's terms so we can all benefit from his analysis. He gives us more practical tools than just telling us to wear pink hats and gawdy trinkets around our necks. Although I'm sure that has it's place as well.
A large part of me is scared of roosh. I mean I've lived such a beta existence I think if we met he would either bitch-slap me or throw up his arms in exasperation and give up. Yet however much a part of me disapproves of his extremely pessimistic views on women, the other part of me has to admit: this stuff ...works. It's been trialled and tested by roosh himself.
For example the rudimentary respect/ sex chart roosh drew up in one of his early blog posts stuck in my head. I didn't like it but at the same time I must resign myself to the fact that it is largely true. It's an intriguing paradox that the more you want the woman and try to respect her, the harder it is to get her.
I may not yet really approve of his whole thing on women but I find myself questioning my own, perhaps flawed, views.
In one post, roosh asked why we should hold women, as a (w)hole, on a pedestal if by our own experiences only a small sample have added anything positive to our lives. It's a good question.
The prose he employs in his posts is genuinely readable whilst still retaining an intellectual edge. The blog has turned out to be quite addictive and now with a bit of polish is turning out to be one of my more visited bookmarks.
As an asian I am still largely a bystander to this pua universe.
Maybe it's a lack of testosterone. I read a study which had a list of testosterone levels by race. Black men on average had the most, then white men. Followed lastly by us asians.
It's definitely holding me back a bit. It's hard for me to get motivated to get off my ass and down to the business of approaching women.
And a simple token 'no' will often be enough to curtail any interaction with me. I have been deathly afraid to do anything that may be construed as rude.
I mean I've seen some guys post videos where they do in-field reports and to me it looks extreme. At the first hint of opposition my natural tendency is to apologise and shuffle off in typical asian-fashion. Yet they shoulder through so much resistance and end up doing well out of it.
I'm not sure I have it in me to do that but I want to.
So after reading a roosh post last night I was determined to change.
It was about thinking of the number 10 and getting to that number every day in approaches. Roosh said something good would happen before you got to ten though so I was optimistic. I decided to give it a go.
Of course I downsized it to a more realistic number of 3 since 10 approaches is more than I've done in ten years so I was sure that wasn't going to happen.
My first approach was as I was riding my scooter along inner saigon and spotted a girl walking in a short skirt. She had really nice legs and ass so I stopped the scooter a bit further ahead of her. I took out my phone to make it look like I had a legit reason to pull over and as she walked past she brushed my arm. Noone walks here so I was going to ask her where she was going. Anyway it ended with her agreeing to hop on for a ride. Which was pretty exciting for a novice for me.
God knows how I managed it since I just stammered and said hop on to everything she countered. Turned out to be pretty weird night but I can honestly say roosh has had a practical effect on my life already.
I doubt I'll ever be a pua artist but if I can get one lay every year or two... roosh will already have doubled my strike rate.
Anyway there was a point to this post and it revolves around testosterone.
Since I'm not about to inject steroids anytime soon, I wonder of there's any other way to motivate the naturally more docile members like me. I'm living in a country where I have no social network at the moment and finding it difficult to gee myself up to slog through approaches solo. There is an active p4p scene and I don't mind that but I've found my most emotionally powerful experiences were with 'normal' pickups.
Shooting fish in a barrel is fun but not very gratifying to the ego and also doesn't really give you the star-trek buzz of going somewhere new.
Or where less than 5,000 cocks have visited.
Being asian, some of his aggressive (to my mind) views on getting girls were a bit confronting. Even the title to his book was a bit too upfront for my asian sensibilities.
On the flip side, I couldn't stop myself reading because his totally 'asian' approach to overcoming a problem touched me. I mean, he used a lot of in-field experimentation and had a firm grip on numbers and graphs.
The asian nerd in me was bedazzled and seduced by this dark side of Science and Math.
I mean this is the first guy to approach the whole love-game from a REAL scientific perspective, as opposed to just jazzing up some pop-psychology bullshit with jargon like mystery does.
He manages to break the game down mathematically and empirically yet explains it all in layman's terms so we can all benefit from his analysis. He gives us more practical tools than just telling us to wear pink hats and gawdy trinkets around our necks. Although I'm sure that has it's place as well.
A large part of me is scared of roosh. I mean I've lived such a beta existence I think if we met he would either bitch-slap me or throw up his arms in exasperation and give up. Yet however much a part of me disapproves of his extremely pessimistic views on women, the other part of me has to admit: this stuff ...works. It's been trialled and tested by roosh himself.
For example the rudimentary respect/ sex chart roosh drew up in one of his early blog posts stuck in my head. I didn't like it but at the same time I must resign myself to the fact that it is largely true. It's an intriguing paradox that the more you want the woman and try to respect her, the harder it is to get her.
I may not yet really approve of his whole thing on women but I find myself questioning my own, perhaps flawed, views.
In one post, roosh asked why we should hold women, as a (w)hole, on a pedestal if by our own experiences only a small sample have added anything positive to our lives. It's a good question.
The prose he employs in his posts is genuinely readable whilst still retaining an intellectual edge. The blog has turned out to be quite addictive and now with a bit of polish is turning out to be one of my more visited bookmarks.
As an asian I am still largely a bystander to this pua universe.
Maybe it's a lack of testosterone. I read a study which had a list of testosterone levels by race. Black men on average had the most, then white men. Followed lastly by us asians.
It's definitely holding me back a bit. It's hard for me to get motivated to get off my ass and down to the business of approaching women.
And a simple token 'no' will often be enough to curtail any interaction with me. I have been deathly afraid to do anything that may be construed as rude.
I mean I've seen some guys post videos where they do in-field reports and to me it looks extreme. At the first hint of opposition my natural tendency is to apologise and shuffle off in typical asian-fashion. Yet they shoulder through so much resistance and end up doing well out of it.
I'm not sure I have it in me to do that but I want to.
So after reading a roosh post last night I was determined to change.
It was about thinking of the number 10 and getting to that number every day in approaches. Roosh said something good would happen before you got to ten though so I was optimistic. I decided to give it a go.
Of course I downsized it to a more realistic number of 3 since 10 approaches is more than I've done in ten years so I was sure that wasn't going to happen.
My first approach was as I was riding my scooter along inner saigon and spotted a girl walking in a short skirt. She had really nice legs and ass so I stopped the scooter a bit further ahead of her. I took out my phone to make it look like I had a legit reason to pull over and as she walked past she brushed my arm. Noone walks here so I was going to ask her where she was going. Anyway it ended with her agreeing to hop on for a ride. Which was pretty exciting for a novice for me.
God knows how I managed it since I just stammered and said hop on to everything she countered. Turned out to be pretty weird night but I can honestly say roosh has had a practical effect on my life already.
I doubt I'll ever be a pua artist but if I can get one lay every year or two... roosh will already have doubled my strike rate.
Anyway there was a point to this post and it revolves around testosterone.
Since I'm not about to inject steroids anytime soon, I wonder of there's any other way to motivate the naturally more docile members like me. I'm living in a country where I have no social network at the moment and finding it difficult to gee myself up to slog through approaches solo. There is an active p4p scene and I don't mind that but I've found my most emotionally powerful experiences were with 'normal' pickups.
Shooting fish in a barrel is fun but not very gratifying to the ego and also doesn't really give you the star-trek buzz of going somewhere new.
Or where less than 5,000 cocks have visited.