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Anson! Please update the first post as long as you can. The more organized the thread it'll be much better for everyone.

Microphone Fiend: You're doing great man!! Keep it up! Let's catch up on the guys in other thread. You know we're better :). Whatever they did, we gonna double!

Anson: What's happenning? You had a good EC day 1. What'd ya do on day 2?

Week1 Day 1

2 Hi's and 4 Convos

These two hi's were 1) In a situation I'd ussually say hi and 2) To a semi stranger - someone who's seen me around many times, but doesn't know me.

I find the convos much easier! I just spent all this time trying to say hi, but I ended up initiating a convo instead. I can say Hi, but it just seems too unnatural, but convos seem easy (not to attractive girls though).

IN ANY CASE, the goal of this week is saying hi to 50 strangers and i'm not gonna skip week 1. If I feel uncomfortable saying HIs, but not so much initating convos that means I HAVE TO work on the HIs even if their point is to make you confidet enough for a convo.

Remember guys: the weakest part determines the whole!

So work on it! I have vowed to raise my goal to 100 and I WILL DO IT.

Week1 Day 2

6 Hi's and 2 Convos

Big success for me since these were with now to me COMPLETE strangers.

It started like this: I went out of home and directly went for the bus stop. There were some kid there waiting for a bus so I started talking about busses (typical ya know). Then I went to thru the mall. Still no Hi's. Mall's kinda pressurizing to me. SO HERE's the solution. I went to a nearby friendly neigbourhood (something like the suburbs). And just walked down the street. There was a woman with a cute litlle child and I said good day.

This was the ice breaker and made it easier for the other Hi's. Why did it work: I put on the biggest smile you ever saw - like one of those hollywood fake smiles! And was walking down looking doing the eye contact like that. BIG DIFFERENCE. People actually hold EC longer and often bring it back after breaking it just once or twice more. And if its a girl she smiles back. SMILE PEOPLE, even if ya have to fake it. I did it for the first one and boom sucess (FINALLY!). After that I needed no longer fake It since I was so happy with myself. Walked some feet down the road and there was a woman on a bench. Looked her hard with that ****y smile "Goodday". G-g-g-good day came back the reply. Heh that made me laugh. She got nervous from me, and not me from her. Wooopie. So I decided on a trying a great IDEA I HAD the previous day. To say hi in the park to all the people jogging by. 1 Hi to an OLD dude and then I decided no more OLD PEOPLE!!! Luckuly in the time while I was running 3 HB ran by and I said HI to them all. They were the ones getting all nervous. Nice...
 
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Okay Cestmoi you've committed to the course now. If you weasel or welch out after this I will personally visit this thread and call you all the pansy-a** b***es under the sun.

Good luck and good hunting.


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Nice one CM. You might like to try experimenting with the hi thing as well, the whole engaging a strangers attention thing is really fun and it really helps to put you in a confident frame of mind. I'm finding that when I'm having trouble starting my days training a few hi's gets me in a more outgoing mindset.
 
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I know that I'm not a newbie anymore, far from it. But I never did the boot camp. So I wanna do it, just to see how well it goes for a man who has been a DJ for over 2 years... ;)
 

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Originally posted by Walden
Okay Cestmoi you've committed to the course now. If you weasel or welch out after this I will personally visit this thread and call you all the pansy-a** b***es under the sun.

Good luck and good hunting.
Lol thanks I need that Walden. And actually I didn't chicken out the last time. I got hit hard with exams and didn't leave home for 3 weeks. But I excelled at those exams!

I am holding you onto to that promise Walden. Don't let me chicken out.
 

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I'm interested in this bootcamp, are there any fees/charges and could you describe it before I make any commitments.
 

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Originally posted by n00blar
I'm interested in this bootcamp, are there any fees/charges and could you describe it before I make any commitments.
Yea, it costs $20, PM me for billing details, same goes for everyone else wanting to participate in Boot Camp.
 

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Originally posted by n00blar
I'm interested in this bootcamp, are there any fees/charges and could you describe it before I make any commitments.
Either me or Drix can handle this but I'll give ya a reduced price of $19.99!!!!!!!!

Anyways the thread I got is pretty sh!tty everyone just stopped, only about 2 people got past week 1 and posted about it (I'm not one of them :(. So I guess I'll post in this thread from what I;ve got so far (9 Hi's I'm not too far in front of y'all)

If you wanna join the Bootcamp, the information on what to do is located in the bible(Click the link at the very top right hand of any page)

Good Luck all and lets try and stick to this and catch the likes of Walden and Indra...
Week 1 Day 1
YEA, this is the kinda day I;ve been waiting for... Went out to town bored as hell and told myself GET SOME HI'S! Basically I walked around town 2-3 times and One guy I said Hi to, and went by him again and he tried to start up a convo with me! Most of the people I intitiated with were male or kinda old women, but I did attempt 2-3 milfs :) Next time I go out I'll try and approach more good looking women....
BTW I ended up with 20 (!) today so that brings my total to 29 total Hi's :) :) :)
After the first couple get outta the way it becomes a lot easier, the best part is when you chicken out you kick yourself, adn then within a second or two you get a second chance with someone else. Might hit the beach tommorow and try and get some more Wish me luck...
 
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Bump!

Day one: eye-contacted like crazy until someone called the cops (next time I'll drop the evil grin... I just couldn't help myself, I loved seeing their faces ;))

Day 2: More crazy eye-contacting, did a couble of "hi"'s too.
 
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Week 1 Day 3

Heh I took this one off. Was in too bad of a mood to go out anywhere. ****! I got up REAL late and missed the chance for most places. Tommorow I'll restart day 3!
 

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I've been praticing with my band for the last couble of days quite intensively, so I haven't had the time nor the will to go "hi"ing around after that. But tomorrow I'm off to say at least 20 hi's :)
 

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C'estmoi , Mic Fiend . Well done guys.
Am gonna try out that big grin idea as well CM.

Good luck and good hunting to you all.

JX well done joining the team. Unfortunatley , Like Cestmoi , you now have me rooting for you. If you don't report regularly then you can depend upon it that I will be here on this thread dissing you out as an absolute p*ssy.

Good luck.
 
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Boot Camp Continued

Week 1 Day 4
Damn this week has fizzled out for me....
Wednesday I was s'pposed 2 do some Hi's but I was with my AFC friends and I didn't muster the courage.
Thursday I stayed in pretty much all day
Earlier on today I went town with the sole intent to approach. I put on the classic FUBU shirt, slap on some jeans and white uptowns and head out.
So I get to town and start to look at some magazines(it's my "thing" I do in town to waste time before I do the bootcamp)
N e ways a friend calls me on his lunchbreak and says "wanna come lunch with me?" So we go to the nearest fast food place and order. Getting outta the line, who should I see but my old case of one-itis! This was pretty bad for me as I was trying 2 forget about it. I ignored her and then she says "hey" while she leaves. But from then on my state was broken and I didn't do any Hi's :(
S'pposed 2 b something going on 2nite and I'm going town with some friends 2morow so, hopefully I'll get some Hi's in then, I wanna finish week 1 in a week!
 

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Re: Boot Camp Continued

I'm in the exact same situation. Hey we'll make it thru this mic fiend! I stayed at home too all Wednesday and saw my ex (not Oneitis, but bad enough) on thursday. Today I got 2 His and those were semi strangers.

Just remember ALL IS HAPPENING JUST FINE, no matter how slow you will eventually get thru this and live to tell about it (to a bunch of HBs no less). So carry on.
 

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Heheeee , Mic Fiend that's totally what I do while I'm bimbling round town getting my DJ training in! Cool.

Honestly as some of the guys here told me , those first 5 or 10 are hard and then you realise how easy hi's really are and the next 40 are a heap of fun. Just try and gut yourself into doing those first 10.
 

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Well, I've spent the last few days playing drums basically 15 hours a day so I've kinda forgotten the whole boot camp thing... yah I know it's a lame excuse... well I still have about 10 hi's or so, if I work hard tomorrow I should be able to reach 50 ;)

Days from 3 to 6:
About 6-7 hi's if I counted them right. They came kinda naturally, had nothing to do with the DJ Boot Camp, they were just good-looking ladies who smiled nicely at me so it came automatically.

Total number of hi's: about 10. Need to do 40 tomorrow... piece of cake! ;)
 

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Ooooooh yeah yeah yeah!

This feels so good, I broke the barrier and I understood much about DJing and life in general. Lemme start with the hi's thing first

Day 6: REALLY CRAPPY day and didn't feel like having the guts to say HI to anyone, but I pushed myself to say hi to 3 people in the gym. THEY ALL ignored me even though the know me well, on the street 2 more - got smirks and bad looks on their faces. THEN I SNAP. I didn't give a ****. The rejection really made me stronger.

So today day 7 I went out with the biggest grin you've ever seen and a don't give a **** attitude. So I was just saying Hi and getting a real good reception from everyone. But then met an AFC friend who dumped our friendship for an HB who's using him , and that I made out with so I would prove to him what a slut she really is... But he decided to take her side and be her "friend" so he continued buying her roses and chocolates until she broke his heart with the famous LJBF. So meeting him was such an ego boost (I kinda wanted to show off). So I told him we can take a stroll around town and talk. I just hi-ed every HB to cross our path and out of nowhere three girls approached us making convos. THAT FELT SO GOOD. He'll trust me intuition on girls next time. If I ever let him be a good friend again that is.

Here's what I learned REJECTION IS GOOD. I only ever got to break thru the hi fear after getting those "rejections" of my tokens of good will that I could go out and say HI to everyone I wanted to. I am now looking forward to convo and date rejections. And I want them to be as bad as they can bad. The worse they are the better and stronger they make you!!! This IS SO GOOD. I didn't reach the bootcamp goal since I only broke the barrier today and I am at around 20 something hi's altogether. But i'll restart week 1 with a higher goal even though I have really overcome the HI thing. Like MOTU said its about discipline. Even if you break thru the barrier after 5 his you still need to the other 45 and turn around corners. For some it only took 10 his to overcome the barrier (like Walden). For other it was more - like me and Mic Fiend.

I've also learned that avoiding rejection and failures is what has really kept me back all this time. Thanks to this site I've learned everything there is to know about women and dating and I could seduce any girl. But what was the use? I could get on with girls I met thru friends and college. A girl could be giving me all the "come hither" signals in a club and I wouldn't approach.

So IF YOU ARE READING THIS and you recognize the situation you're in. Start the bootcamp. In just a few weeks you'll meet alot more HBs than you will thru friends, relatives etc...

A BIG shout out goes to Walden: Thanks man you've been a great inspiration. Its a joy seeing your progress. Keep it up man!

Silk - Welcome aboard! This is one of the best decisions you have made. Good luck!

JangoXavier:

... because you can't dj well with no income.
Or the basics. So get down on it!
 
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Time to get serious

Hey Guys,

This is my first post here, I've been lurking on this site for about a year. I haven't had any solid results, like dates, ONS or # closes, but I do occasionally approach girls, and try out stuff. Anyway, I'm not trying hard enough so it's time to do the Boot Camp, and finish it this time!

Tomorrow I'm starting Week 1, day 1! I already did part of the boot camp earlier, but I wasn't determined enough to do it completely. I'll focus mainly on saying hi and maybe some small talk because I have pretty much mastered EC during the last year and I do it almost everyday.

After I get back from work tomorrow I go to the supermarket start saying hi and stuff.

I'll report back tomorrow. Good luck!

Silk
 
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