Today I’ve opened 17 girls, which beats my previous record of 14 approaches on August 3rd 2023. My last set was particularly memorable: it was one of these very rare sets where I felt I was actually doing Game, instead of polite chit-chat. I stopped a girl outside of the Centrum metro station on Patelnia in Warsaw as it was getting dark. By then I was nearly exhausted from a long day of solo daygame....
Today I did my 500th approach. I remember walking Warschauer Straße hoping for a memorable set for this personal milestone. I was not dissapointed. She was a pretty Russian who turned out to be on her way to meet some friends. The set was a ray of hope in what was otherwise a very bleak session, as my vibe has been very flat that day. The set didn’t go anywhere because she had a boyfriend of 4 years, but as we parted ways she said “you have very beautiful eyes” as she grabbed my hand to shake it....
As I’m reaching 500 sets my metric of what constitutes a productive daygame session is starting to change. When I was a beginner (less than 200 approaches) my aim for each session was to open at least 10 girls within 2 hours, as recommended by Tom Torero. The good thing was that I was getting a lot of time in front of girls which helped me build a lot of reference experience quickly....