Initial body language is crucial when opening a set. The women will get their first impression of you; and you want that impression to positive – that you’re a playful and confident guy.

When you first run your opener, don’t face the set with your body. In other words, your head may be turned towards the set as you address them, but the rest of your body should not be.

You can tell a lot just by where someone’s feet are pointing. If one came across as report-seeking during the opener, the set would perceive it as a low-value behavior. They would then treat him like a low-value guy and blow him out of the set.
Field-testing has shown us that the percentage of sets that open successfully is drastically affected by this one factor.

There are two common opening scenarios worth mentioning at this time. In the first, you are simply walking by the set “on your way back to your friends.” As you pass the target set, you stop, turn your head towards them, and run your opener. As the opener hooks, you can then turn the rest of your body towards the set and continue.
In the second scenario, you are already in a set, adjacent to the target group. This gives you social proof At the right time, simply lean back towards the target group and, over your shoulder, run an opener. As before, when they start to hook, you can turn your body towards them.

When picking up women, some pick-up artists prefer to make up stories on-the-fly to create attraction, but, this is not the most effective method. Revealing vulnerabilities helps amplify attraction, and an ideal way to achieve this is via telling a personal story.

The Mystery Method makes use of canned material. If a particular value-demonstrating routine has been internalized, and is ready for use in set, then that routine is said to be in the can.

A venusian artist who can deliver canned material properly will be able to generate consistent, powerful responses while he is in set. It is a potent tool. Of course, no single tool should ever become a crutch — it’s also vitally important for the open-minded venusian artist to practice spontaneous, natural conversations. There is something to be said for basic social skills! Nevertheless, your skill set is incomplete without the ability to congruently deliver canned material.

It is recommended that you create a routine stack of canned material that you can practice in the field. That is, an opener, a few routines, a few negs, and so on.
While practicing your routine stack, approaches start to become a blur. Patterns emerge over time. Situations and reactions become easily predictable before they occur. Social challenges are discovered and solved. The rest of the world is riving by at hyper-speed.

Once you have performed a particular routine hundreds or thousands of times, you don’t even have to think about what you are saying. Your mind is free for other tasks, such as planning logistics. The target is consciously considering her responses, but you have already had this conversation a thousand times before. You have already fully explored all the conversational threads that could possibly arise from this piece of material. It’s almost like seeing the future.

It’s a well-known fact women love to talk, and talk and talk. Here’s Mystery’s take on talking…

It’s vitally important to be talkative. It’s easy to say it but actually try it for a few months of practice. If you have so much to talk about, and you bombard her (or her set) with lots of fun and interesting conversation, showing humor, opinion, and passion, then you get to convey your personality.

The talkative person just gets laid way more often. The secret is to put yourself in a talkative mood. Have you ever been in oner Close your eyes for a moment and remember what it was like at the time. Looking back on all the girls Mystery has been with, he just talked their ears off. Then after he saw positive body language and other IOIs he would come out of the blue and say, “Would you like to kiss me?”
That’s it — he would just talk passionately about something.. .talk and talk. He wouldn’t talk about her. He wouldn’t ask questions. He wouldn’t really expect her to say anything. If she wants to join in, great, but otherwise, who cares? He does it all.’

There is another benefit to talking — it occupies the conscious mind. Imagine that you’re talking to your friend. You both get into his car, continuing your conversation, and he drives you to the beach. From your perspective, you were having this conversation; sights were flying by, and voila! You’re at the beach! It’s like magic — the conversation was the opiate

The pickup should be the same way. She is talking to you; everything feels so fun, comfortable and natural. The conversation continues to flow — voila! She’s having sex. Like magic! Her conscious mind should be constantly occupied by you.
Nothing ruins the mood like a long, quiet car ride back to the house.. .or a long quiet walk back to the car. Talking and keeping the flow is necessary to overcome logistical difficulties that inevitably will arise.

More conversational tips.

Examples of role playing…

Playful role-plaving builds attraction. Just invent some crazy scenario in your head and describe it to her. Make sure it’s fun and playful, not heavy.

Mystery: ‘You know what I wanna do with you? … You and I are gonna go to Greece … and I’ll dress you up in a toga and we’ll sell hotdogs at the beach.”

Sometimes little bits of material like this are preferable to longer stories. Practice having normal conversations, but then peppering in little DHVs such as these. Not only is this useful as an attraction tool, but it’s also useful in the comfort phase, where it’s useful to create a feeling of shared conspiracy.

Style: ‘You know what I wanna do with you? I want us to go to the beach together … and you’ll wear a nun outfit and I’ll wear a priest outfit… and we’ll hold hands and make out in front of everybody.”

Here’s some tips on building rapport and improving your conversational skills with women.

1. Be a talkative person. Talk to anybody, not just girls. Get into the zone.
2. Don’t explicitly try to impress or show off. Don’t directly tell impressive facts about yourself. Don’t seek attention, approval, or understanding from others. Hot women are already bothered enough by guys who are worried what she thinks. Try being the one guy who isn’t.
3. Don’t talk about weird, creepy, or stupid topics. Most people who do this are seeking attention. It’s cool to get attention, but it’s very uncool to be perceived as seeking it. Thus, don’t provoke people or show off to them in any way.
4. Practice moving your target and getting her into isolation for comfort-building.
5. Demonstrate vulnerability and establish commonality and connection.
6. Practice stacks of canned material. This is a useful skill.

Also practice natural, spontaneous conversations with no canned material.

7. Practice using Multiple Conversational Threads.
8. Continually escalate kino and use compliance testing.
9. For those readers versed in NLP, this phase is a good time to practice your patterning.
10. Cut boring threads, yours or hers. Lead the frame.
11. Talk about fun, interesting, emotionally compelling topics.
12. Don’t ask a bunch of questions. They don’t add value and they come off rapport-seeking. Instead of asking her where she’s from, make a guess. She’ll ask you why you guessed Arkansas, you’ll give her a reason, and she’ll giggle — whether you were right or not.

(You do want her to contribute and invest 111 the conversation. But you want her to do so because she is attracted, not because you are forcing the conversation along with lots of questions. You must add value.)

13. Be agreeable. You don’t always have to be right. Don’t take yourself too seriously. For example, don’t use disagreement unless you need to enforce a frame. If you’re arguing about something you probably care too much. Remember why you’re here.
14. Rapport doesn’t mean boring. The vibe you created in the Attract stage should still be simmering just below the surface.