My Story
I go on the internet by the name of Captain Jack. I am a Pick-up Artist.
What is a Pick-up Artist? A Pick-up Artist (or PUA, for short) is a person who has decided that they want to take a more systematic approach to getting better with the opposite sex.
They usually started off being terrible with women and dating… or, they could get women but NOT the kind of women they really wanted.
PUAs draw from a body of theories, tactics and techniques because we believe that Courtship follows a structure. By following that structure we get better results than simply leaving our male-female interactions to chance.
I’ve created this blog to show beginners (newbies aka rAFCs – “recovering Average Frustrated Chumps”) the very basics of picking up women.
I decided on the name, Captain Jack, because when I reconstructed my life I decided I would live more like a pirate than anything else… (sans stealing shit from ships). Women. Drink. Adventure. And, of course, Gold.
I’m now 33 years old. I make money in various ways. Writing ads. Creating simple websites that sell information. Consulting. And, helping other guys, who are in the same situation I WAS in, to get better with women.
I have two daughters. Abigail is 9 and Elizabeth is 7. Life is pretty good now. I can have many dates per week. A single girlfriend. Multiple girlfriends or even no girlfriend at ALL.
But, it wasn’t always that way. Here’s something I wrote a couple years ago about a turning point in my life…
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So, there I was sitting on my couch eating a bowl of “Lucky Charms”
cereal when I heard a knock on the door.
My heart jumped into my throat, as it did nearly every day for the
last few weeks prior. I knew I would soon be served with a court
order. Just didn’t know when.
I reluctantly opened the door to see a big burly bearded man
standing there. His “meat and potatoes” frame nearly blocked out
the light. “You Captain Jack?”
“Yeah.”
He handed me the papers, “You’re probably expecting this, sorry.”
I unrolled the bundle to stare at my divorce papers. Even though I
knew it was coming (and I even wanted it) the event, the reality of
the whole thing still shook me.
Now, it was REAL. My Lucky Charms got soggy and turned to mush as I
sat there probably for a good hour or two just stunned.
That was March 2004. The main sadness was that I knew I wouldn’t be
in the same house as my 2 daughters, Abigail (5 years old) and
Elizabeth (3 years old), anymore. Every night from here on out I
would MISS THEM except on the court appointed visitation days.
After that I started reflecting hardcore. Now that I was “free” of
my marriage, how did I want my new life to look? I started doing
soul searching.
How much money did I really want to make?
What kind of women did I want?
What would I do now in my spare time?
HOW DID I WANT MY LIFE TO BE?
I decided that free time was more important to me than money. I
decided that if I wasn’t going to see my daughters everyday like I
used to, that I would make sure that the time I did see them was
ALL ABOUT THEM. Now, I take every friday off to be with Elizabeth
(now 4 years old) while my older daughter is in school. I don’t
LIFT A FINGER for work until they are sound asleep.
I started organizing my work to give me more free time, if it came
between choosing between extra money and free time – I’d choose
free time.
Naturally, I started thinking more about women. I discovered
fastseduction.com soon after I got separated in December 2003 and,
man, I WAS FASCINATED. It amazed me that there were a group of guys
so dedicated and so ORGANIZED about picking up girls. I logged on
every day and started experimenting.
One PUA’s name consistently came up, he called himself Mystery.
My friend and I started trying to reconstruct his Game based on his
old posts. And, boy did we BOMB! But, we had fun. We did the newbie
mission and chatted until 4 or 5 am in the morning. I remember
thinking, “The guys don’t try to kill us when we start talking to
the group. This is sooo strange!”
“The girls aren’t really that mean. Some of them are actually
really NICE!!!!”
I had a few successes despite myself. And, when Mystery came back
on the scene I made it a point to get myself to Las Vegas. I
attended the Nov. 19-21 2004 bootcamp.
Since then my game has skyrocketed. I’m doing shit out in the field
that I NEVER would’ve dreamed possible even a year or two ago.
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It’s my hope that I can help YOU do the same thing!
~ Captain Jack ~
