"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Getting Robbed in Brazil...

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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Is it just me, or does it seem like those little scrawny b*stards would be easy to fight off and beat the piss out of? Ie, most of their victims are walking targets, honestly.
I think some people in life deserve to be preyed upon.
 

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My martial arts trainer says that people have been telling him that open-hand combat is dead for his entire adult life. Why would anyone learn martial arts? Everyone has a gun, now, so you're never going to ever actually use those skills. Learning how to fight is a waste of time. It's obsolete.

The bodyguard business must be booming down there right now.
 

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My martial arts trainer says that people have been telling him that open-hand combat is dead for his entire adult life. Why would anyone learn martial arts? Everyone has a gun, now, so you're never going to ever actually use those skills. Learning how to fight is a waste of time. It's obsolete.

The bodyguard business must be booming down there right now.

if you want to be trained for street level combat then you should take up muay thai/boxing/kickboxing and wrestling/grappling. leave that other stuff in the dojo
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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muay thai/boxing/kickboxing and wrestling/grappling

That's a pretty good summation of most fighters' training. "Street Level" just means taking the rules away.
 

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There was one guy mugging people in broad daylight a couple days ago. The cops just rolled up and shot him. People think cops are trigger-happy in the US, go to Brazil, it's a whole new world down there. The cops have a reputation for shooting homeless people just to get rid of them.
 

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That's a pretty good summation of most fighters' training. "Street Level" just means taking the rules away.
This is why I am going to do Krav Maga.
 

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Your best choice in any martial art is the highest quality instruction you can find, and all of that depends on where you happen to live.

Japanese Jiu-Jitsu is very similar to Krav Maga. It's the fighting style of the Samurais who defended Japan for 1,500 years, despite Japanese people being small in stature. Crotch-kicking, eye-gouging, and single digit manipulation was all part of it.
 
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