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Day-Bang-By-Roosh-V.Pdf Day Bang Roosh V © 2011 by Roosh V http://www.rooshv.com All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. To my workshop students INTRODUCTION iv DAY BANG Introduction When I got in the game in 2001, I focused exclusively on bars and clubs. The only times I approached outside those venues was on the street after last call on mostly drunk girls who would simply ignore me. I admit that back then I needed both alcohol and loud music to help me with my approaches, especially the latter, which would soften the silences caused by my weak conversational skills. It took me a couple of years to start figuring out night game, and during that time any success I had was a big deal, a validation of all the energy and money I spent on going out several times a week. Even a little make out would be something worthy of patting myself on the back for. The end was justifying the means. Until it no longer did. I hit a plateau with the quality of girls I was able to get in bars while noticing hotter girls walking around during the day instead of hanging out at the same night venues I frequented. I also noticed that I was inadvertently developing two different games: one for getting laid and another for bitching out cockblockers and stupid girls. I was spending a considerable amount of energy not even trying to score but dealing with bad attitudes. At about that same time, I started spending a lot of time in coffee shops. I didn’t just go for a half hour—I’d stay for long four or five- hour work sessions. As long as I went to a coffee shop that was crowded, there was always an opportunity to chat with a cute girl who was alone. I immediately picked up on something interesting: girls in coffee shops were five times nicer than girls in the clubs. They were respectful without insulting me and our conversations weren’t interrupted by fat friends or random drunk people who were trying to fuck up my approach. I loved how coffee shop girls were already v INTRODUCTION isolated and more open to having a chat, so I began to be more mindful about finding girls during the day. Even though I was having lots of chats with girls at coffee shops, I wasn’t getting numbers. A few minutes in, the girl would politely step back from the conversation. I wasn’t sure why. My strategy up to that point was simply duplicating my cocky night game. Without any bangs to show for it, I put day game aside, not realizing that an entirely different game was needed. I went back into the night trenches, becoming more hardened and bitter in the process. A chance conversation changed everything, and is the reason you’re reading this book right now. I started a chat with a Moroccan girl in a coffee shop by asking her what book she was reading, talking about it for at least five minutes. I wasn’t being cocky and besides a light joke here or there, I didn’t display any of the qualities that usually got me somewhere with girls at night. In my head, I got on myself for having such a boring, low-energy chat, imagining that she was thinking that I’d just woke up from a several-hour nap. Eventually I made an offhand comment about visiting Venezuela for ten days, which she inquired about. Then she asked for my name and next thing I knew she was basically interviewing me. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the “boring” chat I had with that girl was actually the optimal conversation for day game. The first piece of the puzzle was laid right before me, but it wasn’t until five years later that I felt confident enough to teach this game to other men. While I’ve brought in some of the features that made me successful at night, I forced myself to reinvent everything and start with a clean slate to build the best game possible. Through good old trial-and-error and hard work, I developed a model that I believe is the best way to meet attractive women outside of the nightlife scene. The system you’re about to read has not only worked consistently for me, but men who I’ve taught in my day game workshops. My experience and theirs will soon become yours. The truth is that almost every instance of day game I’ve seen in the wild has been absolutely horrendous—so bad that it pained me watch. Bad game affects my sensibilities much more than the average guy, to vi DAY BANG the point that I’d rather watch a 100-man anal gang bang without condoms than listen to a guy open with, “So, do you got a man?” If you apply only half of what I’m about to teach you, you’ll have blown away 98% of guys who have ever approached during the day. I’m not kidding. I may not be able to say that at night, where the standard of game is much higher, but during the day—a time where guys are either too scared to approach or don’t know how—just using my openers will set you far apart and get your foot in the door more often than not. Throughout this book I’m going to make the assumption that you have a basic grasp of game, that you’ve done some approaches, gotten some bangs, and have a strategy for how to date women. If not, I strongly recommend that you read my book Bang. While mostly focusing on night venues, it offers a complete approach-to-sex framework that will also apply to girls you meet during the day. In addition, it includes a text messaging guide for getting dates. I’ll briefly touch on text messaging here, but if you need more in-depth instruction, refer to Bang (http://www.bangpickupguide.com). vii INTRODUCTION viii Table Of Contents I Preparation 1 II Opening 23 III Rambling 39 IV Closing 70 V The Coffee Shop 91 VI The Street 117 VII The Clothing Shop 135 VIII The Bookstore 150 IX Public Transportation 158 X The Grocery Store 171 XI Other Venues 180 XII Putting It All Together 187 x PREPARATION 1 PREPARATION Before we dive into the actual model you’ll use to approach women during the day, I first have to prepare your mind for the work you’re about to undertake. If you’re already approaching during the day, you can breeze through this section. Otherwise, I recommend you read slow and think carefully about the recommendations I make. The Reality Of Day Game If you’ve dabbled in night game for a while, I don’t need to tell you that the reality of game can be brutal. Sleeping with girls from cold approaching is perhaps the most labor-intensive method to get laid, involving a lot of frustration and disappointment. But it’s one that consistently works. It’s a tool available to any man with legs and a voice box, regardless if he spends eight hours a day in front of a computer screen or has a small social circle that only contains ugly girls. 1 DAY BANG Assuming you have weak game and average conversational skills, you’ll get a number from 5% of your day approaches. The average I see from men who come to me for training is 7.5%. My best students get almost a 30% close rate percentage and I personally don’t achieve any higher than occasional streaks of 50%. These estimations include low-probability approaches on the street, so they can be doubled if you develop a niche day venue (if I only approach in coffee shops or bookstores, for example, consistent 50% rates aren’t uncommon). With months of practice on your part, you should be able to achieve 20%. Unfortunately, some men hit a ceiling before others due to limitations outside of their control, and can’t seem to go higher no matter how hard they work, but that ceiling will take years to hit and will always be higher than if you didn’t practice game at all. No matter how amazing your day game gets, you won’t be able to get more than an overall 40% close rate. Therefore, 60% of your approaches will be dead in the water before the first word even comes out of your mouth. This is because most women are in a serious relationship, have fuck buddies, are in a bad mood from PMS, are homosexual, or are experiencing a herpes flare-up that makes them suicidal. Only 40% of girls at any point are even open to talking to a guy, and a percentage of those would rather eat molten hot lead than go out with you on a date. If you were the last man on earth, they still wouldn’t fuck you, and there’s no game in the world that could change such a firm decision. Even when your game is tight, you’ll still get blown off. A watershed moment in my own game development was when I was in my mid-20s. A girl I was dating told me about a party she had gone to that had a handful of famous people. While in the line to the bathroom, the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst, hit on her with a do-you- know-who-I-am type of game.
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