1-Minute Phone Close & Flaking

I was out doing daygame today with Whim and PandaMan. The weather was really cold and not a lot of people were out. We had a really shortage of HBs to work with.

I've found that once I warm up, I have no problem with opening, hooking, and plowing. Today I ended up with 1 #close, 1 @close and 1 FB-close. But I actually felt pretty crappy about them right now, because none of them feel solid.

All the closes happened in about a minute. Direct opener, got the set hooked, plowing, tried time-bridging, ended with the close. The #close was a 2-set of girls crossing the street; the HB was with her friend who was visiting from out of town. The @close was a German flight attendant leaving the same night but will be back again in a month. The FB-close was a persian girl who went to Berkeley business school for undergrad.

All of these have the same pattern. It must have been impressive to watch because it happened so fast and everything seem to work beautifully. But in reality, they will probably all be flakes. I had no time to isolate and connect. None of them got to know much about me, and I feel like I know nothing about them. It sucks. When I came back, I didn't even feel like following up with them. This can't be good.

How can I establish connection in such a short amount of time in the street? I can't even send a properly enticing text message to follow up, cuz I know next to nothing about her. It's definitely something I have to focus on. I forgot to make a little note of what I wanted to do today when I went out. I must remember next time.

Someone found a really good daygame video. I really need to learn from this.