{"id":12273,"date":"2020-08-22T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=12273"},"modified":"2020-09-04T23:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T03:16:11","slug":"sarging-pua-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/sarging-pua-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Sarging? Strauss Learns a PUA Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is sarging? What does it mean to sarge in the pickup artist community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarging is the actual act of picking up women. The term sarging is one of many words specific to the PUA community that Neil Strauss learned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For PUAs, sarging is one of the main components of being a pickup artist. Read about Neil Strauss learning about the sarging technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sarging and <strong>The Seduction Community<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When Neil plunged into the seduction community\u2019s online world of websites and message boards, he discovered an entire subculture. People used aliases\u2014Neil\u2019s would become Style\u2014and they used a jargon that included terms such as:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AFC: average frustrated chump<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/amog-pua-the-game\/\">AMOG<\/a>: alpha male of the group<\/li><li>HB: hot babe<\/li><li>PUA: pickup artist<\/li><li>Sarging: picking up women<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Members of the community wrote posts sharing strategies, divulging details of their exploits, or asking for advice.<\/strong> Beyond the virtual world, men in cities around the world gathered weekly to share techniques and then go to clubs together to put the tactics to use.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community\u2019s leaders were a handful of PUAs who had reached guru status, each of whom taught disciples his distinct set of rules and principles of the pickup game. <strong>The gurus used a combination of psychology, magic tricks, and hypnosis to seduce women.&nbsp;<\/strong>Then, they&#8217;d use sarging to actually pick up women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neil decided he wanted to meet all the gurus, and he planned to integrate techniques from each. The first guru he met was a Canadian magician named Mystery, who had certain ideas on what it means to sarge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Neil\u2019s Introduction to Sarging<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mystery was a celebrated PUA who had written more than 3,000 posts on the community message boards. Mystery started offering workshops for PUAs-in-training shortly after Neil joined the community; naturally, Neil had to sign up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For $500, attendees would get a four-night basic training that included:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lectures on Mystery\u2019s principles and techniques<\/li><li>Field training in bars and clubs, as the trainees were coached through putting Mystery\u2019s strategies to practice<\/li><li>Debriefing after each night\u2019s outing and the results of sarging<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mystery was only the second guru to offer workshops\u2014the first was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ross-jeffries-pua-the-game\/\">Ross Jeffries<\/a>, a pickup pioneer who we\u2019ll talk about shortly. However, <strong>while Jeffries led seminars, Mystery was the first to bring trainees into clubs for real-time coaching.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Neil was investigating the community for his book assignment, he also earnestly wanted to learn from the PUAs. He hoped that this could signal the end of his struggles with women. However, Neil was also embarrassed to admit that he was so bad with women that he was now paying for advice from self-proclaimed experts.&nbsp;He was about to learn about sarging in PUA communities, and how it works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Mystery Method<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mystery didn\u2019t know that the seduction community existed, so he conducted his own research. He studied women and their reactions when he tried to hit on them. <strong>Over 10 years, Mystery pieced together the principles of social interaction and the patterns of male-female dynamics.<\/strong> Part of this involved the process of &#8220;to sarge&#8221; aka to go out and pick up women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mystery developed techniques that incorporated magic with the lessons he\u2019d learned. His strategy\u2014which he dubbed the Mystery Method\u2014broke down into these steps:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Walk into the club with a smile. <\/strong>A smile indicates that you\u2019re confident, fun, and, above all, an alpha male.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Select a target <\/strong>(a woman you want to seduce) <strong>in a group. <\/strong>Don\u2019t pick up women who are standing alone.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Follow the three-second rule: <strong>When you see a woman you\u2019re interested in, approach her within three seconds. <\/strong>If you wait longer, you risk either overthinking it or staring at her too long and looking like a creep.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Approach the group confidently and start conversation <\/strong>with a scripted pickup line, such as, \u201cIt looks like the party\u2019s over here\u201d or \u201cDid you see those two girls fighting outside?\u201d The lines are simple; they\u2019re just meant to get people talking.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Ignore your target. <\/strong>Instead, make her friends like you\u2014especially anyone who would be likely to try to interfere with your pickup attempt (such as male friends). Winning over the group makes you seem like the life of the party, while ignoring your target makes her more eager for your attention.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Further provoke your target with a neg, which is a backhanded compliment or vague insult<\/strong>\u2014for example, offer her gum after she talks, or tell her that her hair would look better if it were up\/down. The neg reinforces your lack of interest and further injures the woman\u2019s self-esteem.<\/li><li><strong>Isolate your target. <\/strong>Use an excuse to get her away from the group, such as saying that you want to show her something.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Look for indicators of interest (IOIs). <\/strong>For example, if she asks you a question about yourself, or if you squeeze her hands and she squeezes back.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Demonstrate an interesting skill<\/strong>, like a magic trick or an ESP test, to impress and intrigue her.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Once you get three IOIs, try to get her to kiss you <\/strong>by saying, \u201cWould you like to kiss me?\u201d This question is fool-proof: If she says, \u201cyes,\u201d you get a kiss (PUAs call this a kiss-close). If she says, \u201cmaybe,\u201d you can say, \u201clet\u2019s find out,\u201d and go in for a kiss. If she says, \u201cno,\u201d then you can deflect and say that you weren\u2019t asking for one.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Keep her wanting more. <\/strong>Create a false time constraint and say that you have to leave, but that you\u2019d like to continue this another time. At this point, she should give you her number (PUAs call this a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/number-close-the-game\/\">number-close<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Mystery\u2019s whole strategy was designed to pick up women subtly. <strong>Rather than coming on directly and forcefully, Mystery instructed men to take their time and build the anticipation so that the woman would <em>want<\/em> to be hit on.<\/strong> Sarging for PUA&#8217;s was an important part of the technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mystery\u2019s Theories, Tricks, and Principles<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mystery had developed countless theories and principles that dictated his tactics while sarging in the field (while hitting on women). <strong>The strategies were all meant to make the PUA seem like the most interesting person in the room, while simultaneously appearing disinterested in the woman he was hitting on, so that <em>she<\/em> would essentially pursue <em>him<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary rule of the game was that PUAs don\u2019t do what everyone else does. For example, if every man in the club was gawking at a particularly beautiful woman, the PUA practically ignored her. When the PUA did approach the woman, he never acknowledged her beauty\u2014he may have even subtly downplayed it. The effect was that the PUA stood out among the crowd.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two dominant theories balanced the goals of standing out and laying back:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Peacock theory stated that men should take a cue from peacocks and make themselves eye-catching in order to attract desirable women. <\/strong>This involved wearing loud, colorful clothes and accessories, such as bright or shiny shirts, outlandish hats, and light-up jewelry.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Cat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/string-theory-explained\/\">string theory<\/a> <\/strong>proposed that women act the same way with men as cats did with string: A cat would chase a string feverishly when it was just out of reach, but if the string dropped right in front of the cat, the cat instantly lost interest. This was why <strong>PUAs had to avoid appearing too eager or available.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Per cat string theory, Mystery advocated an indirect approach. He advised students to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Approach women from an angle. Avoid walking directly toward her, which appears confrontational, and avoid approaching her from behind, which may startle her.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Speak over your shoulder when speaking to a woman, as if you\u2019re about to walk away. Don\u2019t face her directly.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mystery taught these concepts, as well as scripted pickup lines and routines, to his workshop students, and then he set them loose to practice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though sarging was initially something Neil Strauss struggled with, he found that improving at it built up his confidence. Sarging, like other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/pua-terms-the-game\/\">PUA terms<\/a>, is specific to the community and has many different strategies attached to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is sarging? What does it mean to sarge in the pickup artist community? Sarging is the actual act of picking up women. The term sarging is one of many words specific to the PUA community that Neil Strauss learned. For PUAs, sarging is one of the main components of being a pickup artist. 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