"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.
Which Boxing Glove to Buy?
- Thread starter KiLLer
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Soshyopathe
Master Don Juan
If it's boxing, just get some regulation 14 or 16oz gloves, it's not too important.
Apollo
Senior Don Juan
gloves were not made to protect the other guys face.. they were made to protect the wearers hand....that being said....
thats why ken shamrock would resort to grappling after the first round in the early days of UFC when they wore no gloves at all... his hands would be broken and he couldn't continue hitting...
so as to what specific brands...
for MMA, the best ones are Harbinger (although you'll have to take out the plastic bar in the palm if you want to practice grappling) and Ouano (the ones used in UFC and King of the Cage)
as for boxing gloves... stick with Fairtex or Ringside.. they make the best...... period.
Best,
Jin
and if you do go with the boxing gloves.. be sure and get the wrist wraps as well.... they are NOT for adding padding to your hand, the glove does that... its for adding support and keeping your wrist from breaking when hitting... so when you put them on... cross over the back of your hand and around the wrist and then back over the hand again.... repeat and then go 3 times around the tops of your knuckles and then twice or three times around the wrist and hand again until it runs out and velcro to itself.
Soshyopathe
Master Don Juan
"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
wrist wraps do NOT make you hit harder..... I dunno where you picked up this bull-sh!t but its total nonsense....
the only why it would make it SEEM or FEEL as if your hitting harder is becasue wrist wraps support your wrist and keep it in proper alignment with your arm and fist which keeps your wrist from snapping so in essence it transfers more power because of proper body mechanics, NOT just because you put wrist wraps on...
if someone hit you with a boxing glove on and no wrist wraps.. it would feel no different than if he had wrist wraps on....
Best,
Jin