So me and Crob went sarging around Denver yesterday and well, we crashed and burned way too much, we decided that obviously we needed to get out and do this much more often.
For the next few months we are going to be going out sarging once every two weeks and working on different aspects of our game every time. We will be posting field reports here detailing our sticking points, our improvements and our successes.
Day 1
We started at the Cherry Creek Mall but saw no talent so we moved to the 16th Street Mall.
First thing we decided was the we came out on the wrong day, with school starting in a day (two for Crob) there were very few girls.
Approach 1
This is supposed to be a warmup, we see an HB7-8 sitting alone at a table and I approach.
Me: "Hey what's up, I was just wondering if I could get your opinion on something?"
Her: "Okay sure." (VERY low energy)
Me: "Okay so I guess I'm just having trouble deciding what to do with my hair, I don't know if I should keep it like it is, cut it shorter, or maybe straighten it and look like Justin Beiber?"
Her: "Do whatever you want." (Telling me to gtfo)
Me: "I didn't come here to have you tell me to do whatever I want, I came here to ask for your opinion! Now quit being so grumpy."
Her: "Well it's your hair."
Me: "Okay well thanks."
My body language felt strong, voice well projected, everything was pretty good I thought, figured she was just in a bad mood or something and we started walking again.
Approach 2
This is Crob's set and I'll let him talk about it because I was standing around the corner and couldn't see or hear it all.
Approach 3
We see two girls walking towards us and we pass them and then decide to go back, I catch up to her pretty fast, she slows down and is now walking side by side with an older couple (40 years old probably). My mind is blank like it usually is when I'm approaching a target and I completely miss the red flag that should have shot up. I tap her on the shoulder and both her and the people next to her turn around also. They turn out to be her parents, I quickly run through my opener (same one as the previous approach) without any suggestive body movement and bail.
This is probably one of the funniest things that have ever happened to me in pick up, Crob and me were laughing for a while after this.After this we give up on 16th Street and head over to Park Meadows Mall.
Approach 4
Going up the escalator and two hb9s hop on behind us, Crob turns around and asks them if he should get blond tips and they give strong opinions but then when we get to the top they start body rocking and say they have to go and hurry off.
This was probably our coldest approach, pretty brutal.
After that we pretty much walk around and talk about what was throwing us off for the next hour and then head home.
Sticking Points
- Can everything be a sticking point?
- Our opener wasn't very good we decided, we never caught a hooking point.
- Warm approaches, although this was probably also just bad luck on the day.
Improvements (good stuff)
- Body language was alpha.
- Able to get ourselves out of sets quickly if we needed to.
Success
- Nothing this week!
Goals For Next Time
- Hook.
- Create more warm approaches.
- 5 number closes at least.
Crob, since you are a forum mod I'm sure you can just edit this post and add in stuff you want to, when you do, delete this.