"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Planning to take up swimming/martial arts/other hobbies

Evolution

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Hey guys, I finally made a choice to take up swimming and martial arts. My life is too boring.

Any recommendations?
 

"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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KarmaSutra

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Me too. The gym is getting monotonous so I'm looking to get into MMA or Boxing.

I have a pool and man does it come in handy in these thousand degree summers here in Central Florida!
 

Interceptor

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Evolution, I highly HIGHLY recommend that you take up Martial Art training.
And continue it as part of your lifestyle into your life.

If I were to recommend a system I would recommend Jeet Kune Do.
JKD is at its heart, a both philosophical method of viewing Life and a Self Perfection and Self Preservation themed system.
It is rooted in Taoism. Therefore, it is practical and applicable, yet stimulates and challenges one intellectually as well.


Look through some of this stuff to be better informed:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=Jeet+Kune+Do&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv

Feel free to ask me any martial art related questions, Evo.
 

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KarmaSutra said:
Me too. The gym is getting monotonous so I'm looking to get into MMA or Boxing.

Fvck yeah! mma is the fastest growing sport in the country for a reason. It just kicks ass. Every form of fighting has a weakness - in boxing it is being taken down, they teach you to follow through on punches in a way that exposes you to a takedown or worse, giving up your back.

I have been training mma just an hour and a half two nights a week, (soon to be 4 nights) and I am getting in shape rapidly. You work muscles that lifting weights does not, and the cardio is intense. I know a guy who lost 100 pounds in the past year, down to 320 from 420.

Do it - you'll love mma.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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WesCottII

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Right well, in regards to MMA, I'm a cage fighter, and in terms of praciticality, you need to take both a standing art (boxing/Thai/kickboxing), and a ground art (wrestling/BJJ).

I used to swim for county (sorry if I seem like I'm bragging), and well basically, make sure your strokes are sound, and then concentrate on doing lengths.
 
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