Inside the Black Box 11 Essentials    Compare

About 3 weeks ago I received the 11E DVDs, this is my review.

Unwrapping
The DVDs came well wrapped (shipped overseas, I'm in Holland) and undamaged to my door. The “booklet of DVDs” looks cool, but I do not recommend putting it up for display unless you want girls asking about it :-).

The DVDs themselves are pretty well stuck to their holders, so be careful when getting them out. They are also not the regular, pressed DVDs, but seem to be made in a computer from writable DVDs [nerd] they have this win7 drag-n-drop desktop.ini file on there that confirms my suspicions[/nerd]. Probably a thing to prevent piracy. It's much easier giving each DVD a unique code this way. But you'd be crazy sharing something expensive like this for free on the internet anyway.

The content
I realized I didn't own a DVD player (LOL), so I played them with the computer. I watched all the talks in a day and a half *yay self-employment*, and I loved them. Since I did two bootcamps, and frantically studied game the past 8 months, about half of the talks were pretty much known to me. The others were partly or entirely new to me. I definitely recommend watching all of them though, whatever your level of game currently is. It's just very, very awesome to see all this presented by guys who have been teaching this forever. You can just see that they didn't only think about the theory itself a lot, but also about how to get this across as good as possible.

For me personally this is the way I learn the easiest. Not audios, not reading, but actually seeing someone talking about a subject.

Of course, most of the material is skewed towards guys that are new(er) to game. The commercial term “bootcamp in a box” comes pretty close to describing what it is. But LS didn't put their entire bootcamp in that box. That would not be possible anyway, bootcamp is about exercise and personal feedback as much as it is about theory.

You can get a pretty solid base if you're new to lovesystems and 11e is your intro to game, but I'd read magic bullets too, just to get a more elaborate understanding of the fundamentals. In fact, if you cannot take a bootcamp or an 1-on-1 for whatever reason, I think the combination magic bullets plus 11essentials is about the best intro to game you can get!

On the other hand, if you did bootcamp, you'll probably find quite some stuff that you haven't heard about before. I particularly can recommend the 200% social proof DVD (no.4) and Framing (no.6) if you're fresh out of bootcamp. And perhaps Inner game (no. 9), but an overly confident person like myself doesn't need that (-ahum- watched that one 2 times in a row ;-))

I actually took notes during most of the DVDs. Ranging from just a few sentences to a few pages per DVD. This, combined with my bootcampnotes, starts looking like my own personal gamebible. Pretty awesome :-).

All in all, the content was better, more elaborate and more original then I expected. There is simply lots of stuff in there that you do not find anywhere else, including the Lounge.

Some details
The camerawork and editing (screen captions, overlays etc) are so-so, they have a slightly amateurish feel. It's never so bad that it really becomes annoying, but I do feel that it doesn't do justice to the quality of the talks themselves. I knew who the guys who were talking are of course, as do most of the readers of this review, but someone outside of the community might need some more luring in with awesome graphics ;-)

Then again, it's not about watching a perfectly edited movie, it's about learning something from the content. And that definitely is where 11e does great!

Conclusion
I ordered the 11e DVD's, mostly because I was curious about if there was new material on there. I thought that the past months of total immersion in game (both practically and theory wise) basically taught me everything there was to know. I was pleasantly surprised by many of the talks, because there truly is new -and awesome- material there.

The term “bootcamp in a box” is ok, but if you've done bootcamp, it's probably still worth it's money for almost all students, simply because there is moaaaaaaaar!

I can recommend this DVD series PUA's of all levels!

AB

got some good stuff in there..
but price is way to much, its not worth 777 for this product..
lovesystems prices are way to expensive..

this is just a rehash of their old stuff. And the playboy mansion bonus is just a talk – not the mPUAs in action.

I think the only good thing about this DVD set was their marketing…

This product was packed with awesome information, concepts and routines and I'm still copying up my notes from the first time through before gearing it up for a second look. Always great to see Future shooting off (if and when I do a bootcamp I want it to be with this guy!). My favourite quote from his talk: "everything I say is always right, and everything is always going according to plan!"

Cajun had some awesome stage time, Vercetti was larger than life, nice one 5.0 for introducing me to the "London Shot", works a treat! All the talks had me scribbling pages of notes and I'm glad I invested in this product.

My only (very slight) disappointment was that 2 of my favourite instructors, Braddock and Mr M , weren't directly featured this time round. I figured Mr M likes to go at this stuff from behind the camera, undercover style, but was hoping for a bit more from Nick. However, like Savoy said on another thread, way too much going on at the SC to cover everyone.

I only read "The game" in December of 2010 after getting out of a 4+year relationship and only really discovered Love Systems around April 2011. It's hard to believe that this 2010 Super Conference was on the go while I was living in (not so) blissful ignorance!

Keep up the good work guys, you have a satisfied customer here!