 years good friend of mine one of the reasons why I teach his name is Brad Branson he is a second-time convention speaker spoke London 2011 also you know instructor or something executive instructor for RSD but does a bunch of cool stuff we know a lot of the same people come up here man and let's take it away you are I get the headline nice nice sweet all right welcome everyone who is tired I'm really tired I woke up at 9 30 I was up to like 5 a.m. shooting video blogs this morning had to teach for a couple hours today so I'm actually in a very talkative mood this would be good I'll try to make it energetic anyone in here not know who I am a couple people sweet I'll do a brief little bio then quick I work for real social dynamics teaching for about five years now I've done over 40 countries now that I'm in Australia I was in Australia here for about six weeks I actually leave tomorrow I'm going to China for my vacation yeah so it's here I did Melbourne for a couple weeks I did Sydney two times I was in Perth last weekend in Brisbane as well and it was pretty cool the whole thing was kind of sold out and at the end we added a couple extra dates and we're like oh I got to do one more in Melbourne and then I say Melbourne wrong I'm sorry I don't know how to say it in the Australian accent but I had one extra one here and all of a sudden he's like dude that's the same weekend as the convention I'm like shit and this is actually exactly how it worked out for the London one too I was like dude I'm in London the same weekend as the convention so it's really nice that I can do this because the last one was pretty sweet from a promotion standpoint so today I was trying to think about what I wanted to talk about and actually since it's kind of a culmination week for me this is actually probably the biggest week of my life crazy enough I figure I better talk about myself so that's what I'm gonna do today talk about myself in the year 2012 so for me this year has been kind of extreme ups and downs I turned 30 so that was like I had my 30 life crisis for a bit and starting off the year so I've been teaching with RSD for about five years and I realized January and February I went to Europe for two months and what happened was is during that time I've been kicking ass for the last couple years you know rolling and shit up lots of girls I always say talking about the girl shit it's kind of like Bill Gates talking about money or something it's like he doesn't need to break about that shit that's kind of how the girls stuff is for me after doing this for so long but I was like cool I'm going out hitting it up but at some point I felt like I was kind of going through the motions a bit and as anyone here who has been doing this for like five years like the pickup shit five six years you ever feel like you're going through the motions it's like why am I doing this again I'm going to all these guys in the front are like no it's awesome they love the shit ah first couple years are like that but then you get in for a while and especially I think for me because I'm a teacher too it's like I have to go out sometimes and it's like not every night I go out I want to go out I'm like okay I'm going out doing it again or I'm with some friends they're traveling with me so like we're going out and what I realized what it was was after the fact now is there was a period of about 14 months where I just wasn't growing so I had like a 14th month plateau which is a pretty long time to be on a plateau who here is like actually hit a plateau in the game if you guys are young like fresh in this you've hit your first plateau I think the first one for me was I took a bootcamp with RSD in 2007 as a client and the first one I had after my bootcamp was about a couple months in and the first one that's pretty consistent after you take a bootcamp is you get that ego of being successful with girls so it's like I take the bootcamp get rid of all the approach anxiety and all of a sudden after a couple months I'm getting all this like glory having a lot of fun kicking ass getting a lot of results a lot of girls and then all of a sudden I get approach anxiety again and I'm like what the hell is this and what it came from was the fact that I started getting that ego of being successful girls and then the problem was like every girl I go up to you I'm like am I still good and I got to like prove it to every girl so instead of doing that I was just like afraid and I was like holy shit how do you get over that at the point at that time no one even really had any advice for me but what I did was basically I'm like I'm gonna go out tonight and just get fucking rejected by every single girl try to have them just like have them get pissed at me so I go out use stupid openers it's like yeah I can't even think like I'm gonna fuck you in a dumpster later some shit and they're like what like is that gonna work of course not but what happened was or I start like throwing ice cubes and shit but because I didn't care all of a sudden whoa because I didn't have that outcome dependence anymore all of a sudden everything was hooking again so went through like a month or two of no approaches hooking and then cool all I realized what it was was this ego that I had to shatter they're doing some cool fun shit but the sticking point I had at this point this year I think the hardest part about doing with the sticking point anyone not know what I mean by sticking point everyone knows okay so when the hardest part about the sticking point is not fixing it it's knowing what it is right and I think that's why usually when you have a mentor or personal coaching or something like that is to have a guy to give you that personalized feedback to be like you're doing that wrong your eye contact sucks oh then once you know it you can fix it right so for me not having a lot of people that I can kind of confide with that are that far further along than I am it's hard for me to like get that sort of advice from people and what I realized what it was like I said I wasn't growing and I noticed for me actually what it was kind of funny enough it was that I was drinking too much right I don't drink a lot that much whatever but at the time we're in Australia I guess so it's kind of a drinking culture here I noticed you know let's say at the 8 to 10 drink range it's like you know it was weird because you get to a point where attraction is really not even an issue anymore like for me to think about attraction it's kind of like cool 2007 2008 I was kind of like working on that shit building attraction you get to a point we're like okay I know how to get in there eight out of nine girls it's gonna go decently but then I always say the game is really played at logistics kind of dealing with kind of the end of the road type shit like be friending the friends like throwing chode on the other girl or like whatever you need to do to kind of make sure it happened that's I think where the game is played so here I am out at the beginning of this year and for like I said for the first 14 like all of last year in the first two months of this year and I noticed what it was was I just like super sloppy so I go out you have a couple drinks and you're like what's up girl yeah and you're like doing all the shit you're moving around and you're like yeah I'm gonna fucking pull this one and all of a sudden you go you're like you ready to go she's like no I'm the designated driver and you're like screen for logistics why didn't I even think about this shit it's because I was drinking right so I think a lot of people like I quit drinking because it's healthy they're like you know I don't want I want to be healthy I want to be fitness focused for me I was like shit this shit's for game that's only reason why I quit it because it's like I don't need to worry like I said the attraction stuff you just go in be fucking loud open that shit up it pops open but I think like I said you're friending the friends working logistics screening for some of that stuff and kind of the where the where the end is played there that's where you really got to be on top of it on top of your focus so I'm thinking you know what I'm an instructor here I've done this for fucking seven years gone out like five six nights a week for seven years teaching for five years and I'm like okay cool I'll just stop drinking so in February what happened was I went to Brazil for Carnival so I went straight from Sweden to Carnival it's kind of extreme and I'm like I'm going no drinking in Carnival which is very challenging that's probably more challenging the game thing but all of a sudden I'm out and I'm completely in my head and I realized that the drinking what it did it hid all these like underlying sticking points that I didn't even know I had because like the booze kind of hides it a bit right and so it's like holy shit there's like these very newbie beginner things right and for me like I said the reason why this week is so big for me I'm doing my first product launch which starts today some shit so I got to go home and keep working all night long and in the product it's called evolutions I have different kind of skill sets and game levels for each level so you have like the beginner the newbie level the intermediate level and the advanced level and I feel that for guys think I think when guys get into this they think that as you each reach each level kind of like you evolve and you learn new things and of course you learn new things you learn kind of different things in the skill set but actually I think what what makes you kind of move forward is that you kind of just get rid of the shit that is underneath here that's holding you back right so everyone has different things underneath here it's different for every guy maybe you have a like you tend to qualify yourself a little bit or something like that even at the advanced level some guy might still qualify himself or maybe he's not really good at the initial like building momentum it's gonna like I'll just have a couple beers here instead of like going out warming up on a couple different girls and kind of getting the flow nicely and for me so what I what I noticed was when I got like full sober mode is that I had these really obvious sticking points one of them was I still had this aversion towards mixed sets I was like what the fuck I got throw dudes and mixed sets every single weekend I do I teach bootcamp almost every weekend and then when I you know when I'm just like in the flow and shit's happening I don't even notice oh shit there's a guy here I don't even pay attention but for me all of a sudden I'm out and I'm in fucking Sao Paulo or something like this and I see this girl talking to a guy and I'm like okay I'm gonna do this shit I'm like you can do it Brad you can do it and I'm like what the fuck like why are you even are you afraid here what the hell is this shit right like just do it so I go up I go over there and I'm like hey how's it going talking to her talking to her she's like oh yeah I'm like who you here was she's like that's my boyfriend I'm like okay cool well have a good day guys I like ran away and I'm like yes and my friends are like what's up I'm like I'm ready to go guys like the night was a success like what and I actually in my head I'm like I haven't done like a fucking couple set in like years or something like that I feel like for me my own game in a lot of ways what it's been for a couple years and it's still like you know everyone's evolving and everyone has different things that they're good at for me I was like the best at like the I'd be graded in the slam dunk contest so all of a sudden it's like you know you're in there somebody throws you the alley-oop I'm like I'll take that shit fucking spin around fucking ah hit that shit looks all cool right but if you have me like the dribbling test or you're like oh the fucking agility course I wouldn't be good at that shit at all right and that's for me the fundamental kind of basic stuff there is really hitting your warm-ups properly getting in there you know right when you get in the club have the discipline to you know get those first approaches out of the way some of that type of stuff you know and it's a skill it's a discipline it's like a discipline and a skill to do that and again when you have like the few drinks at the beginning there you can get kind of lazy on that so that was one of the first sticking points that I really needed to overcome