I just signed up for a 10 week improv comedy course with Comedysportz, I'm dead excited. I've seen these guys perform and they're brilliant.
I've always loved impov shows 'Whose line is it anyway?', 'Just a minute' etc. I often play improv games with friends. I read a great book on the subject last year too called Improv by Keith Johnstone.
I'm sure it will benefit my PU skills enormously.

Peace

You got some balls sir. I know a guy at uni who is one of the main dudes at ComedySports.

I think to let yourself go and do something like that, will help your confidence out no end.

I'm walking to the first session of the course right now. Pretty excited about the adventure that lies ahead.

I will, of course, share any game related insights with you all.

Watch this space.


Peace

Looking forward to you spreading the love man

well how did it go?

OK.

I'm 2 sessions in now.


1st Session:
Consisted of warm-up exercises designed to get you to express yourself freely, and at the same time so the group leaders could see who does and who is too socially conditioned to trust themselves.

Throwing an imaginary ball to each other (after a couple of turns the imaginative / expressive among us started to mime keep-ups, basketball etc.)
Accept and move (You point at another they say 'yes', then you take their place)
Wolf (3 players are wolves, 1 is the saver, the rest are ignorant villagers. Only the saver knows who the wolves are. Each 'night' the wolves pick a victim and the saver picks someone to be saved. Each 'morning' you are told if the wolves were succesful or not. If so the villager has to leave, if not you have a known non-wolf. Then everyone discusses who the wolves are. There's a vote, and somone has to leave the group. This continues until there are only villagers or wolves remaining.)
Machines (3 players form an interactive machine. 3 more players are the team who designed the machine and they have to explain what it does, how it helps humanity, the remaining players are the journo's at the press conference.)
Party Quirks (Same as the game on 'Whose Line...'. There's a party. Each attendee has a quirk that they have to express. At the end the host has to identify what character you were each playing.)
Everyone who... (A player shouts out 'Everyone who...', and those who have or do go gather around that player. Just like the drinking game.)

There were a few other games that escape my memory.


2nd session: 'Yes...and...' & 'Bringing a brick' to follow.


Peace

sounds good
how do the pua skills come in handy ??

safe pyro

I think it works both ways.

My whole style is about just saying whatever random crap comes to my head. The guys who know me can vouch for the fact that I very rarely sensor myself. Whether that's at work, in the field or to the brainless meat-head who incomprehensibly wants to kill me. Being like this can be, amongst other things, hillarious, annoying, sexy or wreckless depending on the situation.

So being in front of strangers and saying random crap, creating a fantasy situation etc. is normal for me. I think if you do PU this way / live an SA life of authenticity it will certainly help with Improv.


On the flip side Improv helps with PU and to be totally SA because, at base, it is all about living in the moment and having the confidence / self-trust to freely express yourself. Not trying to be witty, funny or clever. In fact not trying to be anything. Just being.


Each class has a theme, a central concept. Understanding and internalising these concepts make it easier to create complete scenes out of just a couple of words. These crazy worlds you create are not only fun, they shut down peoples logical brain making them far more accepting of whatever you do next (like kissing, ass-grabbing etc.).

Click the green arrow for more about my employment of randomness in set :

I saw a great BBC documentary about reading, where they talked about how Shakespeare used to do this. Before an unlikely plot twist he would use various linguistic trickery, such as repeatedly using a noun as a verb, to shock the brain. This would make the audience far more accepting of the unlikely or implausible twist that followed. They demonstrated this by showing the effects, on the brain, of these linguistic devices under a CAT scan. Genius!

Check it out here:
http://m.youtube.com/view_playlist?d..._from=PL&gl=GB

When interacting with girls, there are two advantages of shutting down their logical brain. First it will make them more accepting of whatever bold shit you do next. Second, all they have left to judge you on are their current emotions, what they are feeling.

Click the green arrow to see how and why girls will follow you into whatever emotional state you are experiencing (e.g. sexual arousal) :

So all you have to do is make them feel good, shut down their logical brain and be bold.

Improv helps with the second one.

There are other advantages to your game from learning Improv. At least one great one will be explained when I describe the concepts of my second class.


Peace

wow man i just read your links
thats some flipn awesome shit it makes learning routines and pick up lines a complete waist of time
i just need to know how to convert into a natural i guess it defietes the word a bit "natural"


did you ever give the method of being a natural ???

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pyro

Dude,
That's exactly what the stuff I do is, natural. Here's something I posted on another site, a site that shall remain nameless (there can be only one ), which explains how the term natural works:


Hope that clears things up


Peace