Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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Getting Robbed in Brazil...

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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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
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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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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