 All right, guys. Up next, we have Richard Laruna, aka Gambler. He is the founder and CEO of PUA Training, market leader on the planet right now, at least Europe, and probably the United States too. A friend of his has spoken at the convention in two years in a row in the United States. Adam Lyons, you guys know him. And Gambler is basically the man in Europe that Adam is in the United States. Long story short, he's in kick-ass, and I appreciate you coming big time and supporting the event. Thanks, man. Thank you. Thanks, guys. All right. So what I want to give you, I've got like an hour and a half something around that time. And what I'm going to try and do is I'm going to look at the whole four years that I've been training and learning this stuff. It's probably about four and a half years, and I'm going to condense it down into an hour and a half. So you might want to take notes. What I'm going to give you is not very much theory. I'm going to give you a lot of applicable, usable techniques. So if I'm teaching you something, it's probably something that you can go out tonight and use it. So that's going to be kind of the, you know, the structure behind the talk. So I started years and years ago, and I started by reading the game, and I was coming from a place where I was very shy, very bad socially. I was an introvert and I didn't have many friends. Of course I was terrible with women. So at 25 years old, I'd only kiss two girls. And I literally, you know, I didn't know the first thing about anything. My dates would be boring. I didn't know how to get a number. I didn't know how to go for the kiss. I wasn't confident, you know, stripping down in the bedroom and pleasuring a girl in bed. You know, I wasn't confident at any part of the pickup. So I had to learn all of it from scratch. And I started off like most people. You read the game and you go out, you try some routines. You know, who lies more? David Bowie opener, all of that stuff. But then some things started happening. And what I'm going to give you today are the real big things that I've learned that really helped me get good and that I don't think I would have just found out by chance. And I'm going to start with something that I call forcing IOIs and go into nonverbal game in general. So a lot of guys tell me, you know, how do I game in a really noisy club? Anyone, anyone struggles sometimes in really, really noisy places. You know, music pound in the girls like, what, what, you know, can't hear anything. And it's funny because I've gone from being exactly the same from hating that kind of environment to now I'd say it's my absolute favorite place. If I go out in London, you know, I want a game in the place. It's like after midnight, the music's pumping, it's packed, it's super loud, and there's no way you can have a conversation there. And the reason is that I love using all this nonverbal stuff because it is really, really cool. And it all started for me. I went on a holiday and I actually started in Sweden and I did a European tour with this guy who is still to this day the best guy that I've ever seen gaming. You know, he did some things. When I was, when I was with him on this holiday, he did some things where I was watching him and I just couldn't believe it. I was like standing there shaking. You know, I just couldn't believe what he was doing. And still to this day is the best guy that I've ever seen when it comes to escalating, leading, dominating, being sexual, all of that stuff. He recently started a day game and he just goes out in the street, gets a girl back to the house, and when I'd be in the nightclub with him, he'd say, oh, you know what, I want to get laid, actually. I'm going to take that girl home. And I'd be like, yeah, come on. And he'll go and talk to the girl, five minutes later and he's, you know, he's walking home with her. And he's literally the best guy I've ever seen doing it. His name is Steve. And we went on holiday and this is where I made my first big realization. So at that time, I was doing the traditional thing, you know, approaching directly, you know, blah, blah, blah, and make the target, all of this stuff, roughly the same thing. But I was seeing Steve do stuff and he wasn't following that. He'd approach a big group, but he'd just approach the hot girl, he'd take her out of that group, he'd kiss her and then he'd leave. And I'd be like, what? You know, he didn't open the group, he didn't need a wingman. He never asked me to come in and wing him. He never seemed to hesitate. He always seemed totally confident in everything he was doing. And the funny thing was that it took me a while to realize because he never, he never talked to me. He never talked to me. Because he never, he never taught me. I just hung out with him and I picked it all up. But I realized that he was doing a few things and it all started with something that to this day is still probably one of the most important things I've learned and that is forcing IOIs and using non-verbal communication. So I'd be in the club with him and the first thing would be quite funny. You go on the dance floor and he'd do this really silly dance and he'd be there and he'd go like this, like that. And what would happen? The girls would kind of look at him and laugh. Everyone in the room kind of thought that was quite silly. But what does it show? It shows quite a lot of confidence. It shows he doesn't take himself too seriously. So he's already showing some good qualities right there. But he's getting attention, right? So the girls are looking at him because he's doing this crazy dance. They might even tap their friends and say, look at that guy, what's he doing? And when they'd look at him, he'd kind of do like that. He'd do a little point where he might do this. He might wave, might raise his drink. He'll do something that forces a response from them. He'd get their attention and then he'd provoke a reaction. Now, the way this works is who's ever heard that mission? Well, you go around a club and you introduce yourself to every girl. You're cheers every girl. Or yeah, you've seen that. So you'd cheers every girl in the bar. It's quite a good one. You get your drink, walk around. Oh, cheers, cheers, cheers. Now, if you think about that, if I went around this room right now and I shook everyone's hands, I'd go, go here, shake hands, go here, shake hands. Oh, all right, you know, go here, shake hands. All right, nice one. So what do we have? We have a response that is pretty friendly, response that is rude, yeah? And a response that is friendly. So if I did it in the whole room, I'd be able to categorize all of you guys right away in how friendly you're gonna be to me. Okay, so if you go around a bar and you cheers all the girls, some are kind of like, yeah, cheers, like that. And some are like, oh, cheers, yeah, have a good night. Which one is gonna be more receptive if you actually approach? You know, the second one, right? First one, you can approach us still, but you're gonna need more game. You're gonna need to try, you know, maybe pull out some special tricks to get this one. So you might be a bit bitchy, a bit tough. The nice thing is, you know that, so you know where to come in. You know where to calibrate your game to. You don't need to neg every girl. You don't need to use a compliment opener in every girl. You know, how do you approach a girl? You know what, you can't use a one-size-fits-all approach, but it's very difficult to come up with that in the time between you see her and you walk up to her. So what we wanna do is we wanna use the nonverbal way of opening, the forcing IOIs, so that we know exactly what kind of game we're gonna need and exactly how quickly we can escalate. And we know that before we've even approached.