mASF post by "Eric K"
posted on: mASF forum: Reviews Discussion, October 10, 2004I attended the Mystery Method bootcamp in DC last week. This consisted of 3
days of seminar and in-field workshop. Here's how I would rate the different
aspects of the bootcamp on a scale of 1 to 10:
seminar: 10.0
in-field demonstration: 10.0
in-field coaching: 6.0
The seminar was very well done. Mystery did a good job focusing on the
material and there was very little filler. He started out with explaining the
overall structure of his method and gave detailed explanations of each phase.
Mystery didn't hold anything back and gave us his best routines. All the
different points in the outline of the seminar were discussed. In addition to
this, Mystery gave us individual advice on dressing and constructing unique
identities for ourselves. The identities he helped us construct were based on
our career if we were already set in our career path, or what we were planning
to do for students and guys not set in their career path. Mystery did a really
good job of taking my career path (software engineering) and creating an
exciting identity based on this. He even gave me an example of some great
routines that he had made up for another student of his in the software field.
Mystery was really passionate about the material and spoke in an engaging and
enthusiastic way throughout the seminar. He even stayed 4 hours late on the
last night in order to cover everyone's questions.
Mystery was incredible in the field. For anyone who has any doubts, he
definitely is as good as he says he is. In fact, watching him in field, he is
so damn good, you start to think that he's not even human. I mean, he opened
almost 100% of the time. I only saw one instance where he did an approach that
didn't go anywhere at all. He was even able to pick up in bars where I thought
there was no potential whatsoever. For example, on the first night, we went
into this Latino dance bar. The place was small and was so packed that there
was virtually no place to stand. And almost all the girls were busy dancing
with guys, so there seemed like there was no potential at all. But Mystery
still pulled off 2 good sarges. There were these 2 girls at the bar who I
think made some comment to him as he was walking by, and he forced his way next
to the bar and started gaming them successfully over the very loud music. And
as he was leaving he was opened again, and made room for himself and carried
out a good sarge despite the really loud music. I'm not going to go into all
the details of his sarges, but suffice it to say that he was received well over
and over again and constantly had girls laughing and having a good time.
As far as the in-field coaching, Mystery spent far more time demonstrating than
coaching. I think that the advice I was given was right on the mark, but I
would have liked more feedback and help in set. On 2 of the 3 nights it was
just Mystery with us, but on one night Savoyre came into the field with us.
Savoyre was really good, and helped me out with 2 set I was struggling with.
Things were much better when he was there because we got more feedback. I
think that Mystery should have another instructor with him on each night since
he's in set most of the night.
Overall, the bootcamp was worth the money, and I would recommend it to anyone
who is atleast able to approach.
Eric K
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