Solomon said:
Sosuave is hands down one of the best sites on here if you filter through the garbage there is tons of Jewels
That's the problem. filtering through the garbage. This place has high signal to noise, but love shack is mostly all noise.
Solomon said:
You don't have any guru/teacher affiliation so you don't get the **** sucking that's associated with most schools were someone is trying to sell you a product. I've gone to other sites and if you don't agree with their "teacher" or logic, you will get ridiculed, **** paying $2000 for a bootcamp or a $100 for ebook not worth it
If you go to a dojo, and you try to tell the teacher how to throw a punch and you constantly keep challenging his teachings, what exactly would you expect him to do? If you are training for kickboxing, the coach doesn't want to hear about your jujitsu lessons and how you think jujitsu is a better way. That's just common sense man. Your calculus teacher doesn't want to hear about your algebra problems. You are there to learn their way. Not there to teach them yours. Hubris. Now, the key is to learn several ways and then form your own style. Be like water my friend as bruce says. Somethings are worth what you pay for them. Some things are not.
Solomon said:
The Bible is priceless within itself
this. I agree. Half of the post here wouldn't have to be made if it was mandatory to read the bible before being allowed to post.
Solomon said:
what this site needs more of is field reports like a couple years ago when I first started......when guys like Snowplow, Jon24, Macallik, Noob, etc etc had the Don Juan section on smash(hell even Duff posted a field report back then)
Peace
I agree with that 100. Peace.
Colossus said:
No offense to the Zenmack crew, but I'm not paying to join a fvcking message board. Even if it's only $15, it's the principle. He's just another guy selling something. "buy my eBook, buy my seminars, buy my DVDs"....
It's up to 15? Did not know that.
Colossus said:
Sosuave is great because it's an open board. It's free, not affiliated with any self-appointed "guru", and it doesn't pimp products. The key is, instead of b!tching about crappy posts, KBJ members, etc...just respond to what interests you and move on. Don't feed the negativity.
I'll address that first sentence later.
I agree with you, respond what interest you and move on. Most people get their feelings caught up in it.
Colossus said:
NextLevelGame has some cool members, although it's a smaller board and has a pretty low post turnover. I guess that's good and bad.
Never been to next level game. Might have to check it out.
I'm going to say this about zenmack and then I'm done on that topic. I found Supreme's stuff over on fastseduction.com he was the only one teach real life game that actually applied to what I was dealing with. His style of game, from the pimp/mack/player style, fit my style a whole lot better than the whole PUA running up in girls faces and spitting scripts. I have most of his old free shows and his master ebook which basically sums up all of his teachings in a nutshell.
I'm a business owner. I really don't see the problem with paying for what you want. I could learn how to do taxes by spending months and months on tons of free tax forums and sites or I can take a quick class and get the direct attention and focus on my problems and be done in time for tax season. I look at it as purchasing a service. If it doesn't do what I need, then I won't buy it.
There is a saying in the pimp game, which is true in life. The game is to be sold, not told. That's what books, classes, colleges and universities do. They sell the game not tell the game.
And as a business owner I can tell you, people rarely take things seriously that they get for free. You get guys coming here everyday who refuse to read the bible but will go pay for a bootcamp. That's just human nature. What's free is disdained, what has a price tag becomes more valuable. In fact, it seems the more you charge for your services the more people value what you do. I found when I raised my prices on my business, I ended up with a better clientele who wanted exactly what I was offering and I had less headaches from those clients.
I'm not on the zenmack forums anymore, but I always pushed Supreme to monetize his operation. I told him what he was selling was worth more than he was selling it for. And it is. Hell, he gave away everything on his free podcast and free forums, so if you were there then, you really have everything he had to offer. I know he's moving in some new directions now, but I got what I needed at the time I needed it, I didn't mind 5 bucks a month for that, I spend more than that on cigarettes. Knowledge is valuable. Time is valuable. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Spending all day answering questions, coaching people, making podcast and videos...after awhile you need to be getting a check for that kind of time spent. I love what I do for a living but I am not gonna do it for free (well for my friends and family, but everyone else has to pay)
The main thing I liked about zenmack, because it was a closed forum, you developed a bootcamp mentality. It was less noise, off-topic stuff got shut down, random bullsh*t post got shut down. It kept the focus on what you were trying to achieve and I think it helped a lot of guys not get sidetracked into useless debates. Now when things did flare up, it got ruff, but if you got a bunch of men in a room you gotta expect that. It was always squashed quickly. You also had to show and prove. Not doing the exercises, you get called out, not going out sarging, you get called out. Not getting your gear and clothing on, you get called out. Some guys need that sort of push to keep them motivated in the game.
I notice that the people who attack sites like that the most are the ones who never actually checked it out, 100 percent. They found some little key thing to hang their hate on and then dismissed it out of hand. I'm not saying zenmack is perfect, its not, it has its faults, but as a tool to focus up in the game and get some good feedback from people who are at your same level and above with low noise, It's good for the price. Or at least it was when I was on it. I'd have to get some other guys who are on there now to tell you how it is now.
That's my final statements on it. It's not much else I can say. Except that loveshack sucks.