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The investment of this workshop was a greater investment which included traveling from Ontario, Canada to Eastern Europe ($1600 plane ticket), bed and breakfast lodging (can’t recall the cost but quite cheap), and approximately Individual workshop cost was $1600-1800. I had spent roughly 8 days in Croatia in total during the winter and 2 days travel. Less then $4500 was spent on the experience.

This was a great deal…just a few months before The GAME came out as workshop, and seminar prices were cheaper.

I spent 3 days in an intensive workshop mode with Badboy and Cortez learning theory, performing drills, and incorporating the ideas into the field. I also had Shark one afternoon teaching his Basic Playboy. Shark was in production of his Attract and Date CD series at the time.

I was in a serious transition mode of letting go of Indirect PUA and learning to develop a Direct Natural approach. Their marketing angle worked at the time and hooked unsatisfied users of the Indirect Schools being practiced in Canada and the U.S.A.

I also spent hours in Instant Messenger with a workshop attendee who felt transformed by their teachings. Plus Basic Playboy was their recommended product. I spent some time preparing for workshop incorporating their teachings, beliefs, body language, and mindset at night. I also lost some weight and changed my clothing style from Metro Sexual to more of a Natural Clean Generic sort of vibe.

HIGHLIGHTS:
• Bad boy’s explanation of The Matrix
• Direct openers
• Alpha Male Body Language and sub-communication
• Bad boy ideas about Rapport
• Lots of infield with Cortez as a wing and Badboy for infield instruction support
• Spending 2 days with the guys after the workshop including Shark (almost 5 days of teaching)

The workshop helped me transition from indirect to the changes that were about to happen. The dropping of indirect routines was not a big deal for me…as many of us caught wind of what the book was going to do. So guys started to transition away from Indirect even as early as 2004. This was before the book came out and even the new crop of workshop instructors after The Game came on the scene reciting the same crap we were moving away from a few years prior.

My biggest struggle that weekend was within myself. I realized their approach to Inner-Game was not going to heal my own internal battles. I certainly learned a different skill-set, but walked away a bit more frustrated and eventually went into a downward spiral. This had nothing to do with Badboy and co. but more to do with myself.

Sometimes you just hit the wall, and I slowly had to return to Hypnosis/NLP based Inner-Game practices via Hypnotica and his DYD classic Master’s speech and eventually the teachings of David Deida.

I think the biggest thing I got from my Badboy experience…was a better understanding of sub- communication of even the skill of feel within my body of exploring dominance.