Experiment of the weekend: Salsa.
Heads up, this is a long post.
TL;DR: go do salsa, specially for new guys.
Background info + Preparation:
Few years ago some chick dragged me into her salsa class, I suffered from bad attitude and close mind and run away because it looked "gay".
How foolish of me.
I have decided to give salsa and dancing a second chance, was on the back of my head for a long time.
On my way:
I have my doubts, get cold feet at the door and turn back to call a friend, he didn't pick of his phone and if game got gods I thank them for that.
So, I'm at the door, saying to myself that I'm going to make a fool of myself, works possible outcome it will help me crash my approach anxiety.
A few horrifying minutes pass till a circle is formed and everybody dance, lot's of touching and switching partners, and I don't have the time to get nerves, few minutes into that and I get into the flow, even messing up looks like I'm just goofing around as I laugh a lot.
This will help with kino, it helps break the fear of making physical contact.
Circle breaks, couples formed, realizing I'm about to lose momentum I catch the closest girl and ask her to teach me to dance (hence marked as #1), turns out she is very good at this and teaches me the basics.
Batacha (betacha?) music starts, she pulls me close and teach me the basics. at the end of the song some other guy ask her to dance, she hesitates but I eject (beta? maybe, or maybe it's the vibe and others where switching).
I take a moment to catch my breath and reflect, see other girl ( will be marked as #2) so I go and ask her to teach me, she is new to this as well, and she try to teach me what she knows, says I do pretty well for first time.
Dance a bit, switching time so I go to rest a bit, notice #1 is open and in I go.
Start talking with her in between, turns out she teach other styles of dancing (not sure what), and that she come to this place once in a while (keep this in mind, imported piece of info) the circle goes up again and we break.
Few minuets of that and then couple dancing again,see two girl talk, approach and ask
"Can you dance?"
"Yes"
Can you teach?"
"Yes!"
Dance with one of them for a while, then some with #1 again, she make a comment about my looks and that she and her friend are leaving.
I hesitate to take a number, she ask me if I'll come again, I say "maybe, see you around" (was it beta?).
We say goodbye, and I go to drink something.
She come to me (!), and say "next week!" (so it wasn't THAT beta I guess?), I speculate that a seasoned player could have SNLed her without a problem, but I'm not there. Yet.
I go back to catch my breath, #2 is doing the same.
I approach and start talking, try to build some connection, I ask about her accent and she locks up, WTF?! the convo start to fade and my mind is racing, and she say "let's dance", we do that, and at some point she ejects to dance with a skilled dancer.
The place start to slow down, people leave and I pickup the cue and head out.
As I wait in the bus stop #2 comes, we chat a bit, she seems more open now, but I realize that I don't have the tools to hit on her properly.
Conclusion:
Yeah, no numbers, no bang. could count as a fail.
However, I had fun, found a new method to learn game, got a bucketful of confidences and the feeling that #1 was DTF, and I lack the SNL tools gave me piles of motivation.
Also, worth mentioning that the all of girls were good looking, even the chubby girls looked better then the regular chubby in a average club.
Can't explain why, maybe the dancing make them move better?
One of the guys I spoke to told that this is a good method to meed girls, and that if with my ability to start dance with girls with zero knowledge, they will come to me when I'll have good skills.
My ego get a boost, made me smile a little.
If you read so far, what is your taking, salsa and batach as a method to meet new girls yay or nay?