I rarely post here anymore, only when something that I think is big and worth sharing comes along.

This fits that category. Badboy is back… but for how long?

I’ve never actually reviewed a Badboy product on this blog, the reason is I came to Badboy’s teachings late. I was, for a while, quite staunchly protective of the indirect style, and saw direct methods as missing something and not as refined or as – frankly – psychological as indirect.

I was wrong then, direct methods have structure and are intelligent, what’s more they come from a position of enhanced masculine identity. Indirect has its place, but as a convert to direct (slowly over the years), I found it more satisfying.

Badboy is the main protagonist of direct method, he’s been in the game as long as anyone and played a role in the Game. The funny thing that I found with Badboy’s teaching is that it shattered my beliefs on direct being an unintelligent and unstructured simple caveman style.

OK, I’ve built it up enough – but if you haven’t tried direct game before, then do what I suggest now and head over to Badboy’s blog to ask him a question.

I heard today that, for a limited time, Badboy is opening up the floor to questions ahead of a big announcement, you can find the questions page here: http://badboylifestyle.com/blog/heres-my-question-badboy/

The success I got with indirect has been overshadowed by direct style – instant attraction anyone! Hope this message reaches you well.

I thought I’d take a moment to mention the launch of the Seduction Chronicles Forum.

http://www.seduction-chronicles.net/community/index.php

There are a number of seduction and pickup forums on the web, some better than others. And every so often there is a new one. These days the new forums are most often sponsored by a Dating Guru. Nothing wrong with that, there are a few dating gurus who’s forums I could hang out in and learn a lot.

But why take the time now to mention this particular community launch? Well it’s because I think this could be the most current, ‘big picture’ perspective type forum, if you know what I mean. Why do I think this, because that is what Donovan’s site Seduction-Chronicles is. It has its finger on the pulse of the happenings in the seduction community and the writing is of a consistently high quality. If that overview is brought to the community forum by Donovan and the other contributers then it will be another excellent resource.

Of course, as a forum, it is only as good as its members. So go join and make it a great place to be.

Video footage of teaching, of sarging, of anything related to the perspective of seduction is around for the seduction student’s education and enjoyment. And, back in 2004 the appearance of seduction related video led directly to the Hoobie and Loverboy project PUAMedia.com which (unfortunately) eventually caved under the weight of the lack of regular quality recordings and efforts required to condense them in one place. However it returned a few days ago in a redesigned blog format.

The return of PUAMedia provides a single reference point for most of the video available on and related to seduction in one place. I say most, so we don’t forget the media hosted in other places, not for the likes of youtube consumption.

The announcement above leads to seduction video in general. The main categories of seduction video are the clips of teaching at seminars; the infield pickup; and the entertainment show that features seduction. While being produced for enjoyment, the last category of TV features often have some re-framing merit to them.

One such video was the UK Channel 4 special Seduction School that saw Wayne Elise and Johnny Saviour from Charisma Arts take three self-proclaimed misfits to Seduction School.

I was going to post video for the Seduction School Channel 4 special. But… Attraction-Chronicles went to the effort of putting it on youtube, credit to them
http://attraction-chronicles.blogspot.com/2006/08/watch-seduction-school-episode-video.html

Regarding footage of live seduction technique. The practitioner really embracing the use of in-field video is Mehow. The videos address the challenges of covert recording and come up trumps for real world footage. Mehow’s latest video, on the redesigned mehow.tv website, Bachelorette Set Part 3 continues the series with comfort, attraction and group management, and further demos. Check it out here www.mehow.tv/video/indexFull.php

Seduction practice throws up many internal dialogues, offering challenges to personal feelings of inner emotional state. Fixing the negative feedback is the topic on show in Inner Game Tapping. Lest you think differently, anxiety is a natural feeling shared by all to a greater or lesser extent. Without being checked and controlled, however, it can sometimes become a crippling demotivator.

Techniques like this come in to the seduction arsenal. Magnus from Bristol Lair demonstrates.

Many guys know of Thundercat. For those who don’t, Thundercat was one of the first seduction bloggers and author of The Art of Approaching. His site thundercatseductionlair gave voice to a lot of issues within seduction. TCs ranting (his term not mine) style on various seduction subjects led to discussion from many seduction quarters.

More recently his site invited some controversy with scathing attacks on some members of the seduction community and wholehearted support to others. However, some good insight and information has been found there consistently since its creation in early 2004.

TCs lair was apparently abandoned months ago, and many missed it for its dose of seduction hot topics. But, as you may have guessed by the title of this post, Thundercat has returned with a new blog.

His old site is remaining at www.thundercatseductionlair.com
For reference to the archived posts. There is some interesting stuff in there.

The new Thundercat site can be found at www.artofapproaching.com/blog
Maybe the controversy will be tempered, or maybe not. Maybe that’s why we enjoyed it! Maybe not. You may want to check it out.

There are always questions coming our way, and they are all appreciated. So, I repeat the email address for anyone wanting to ask a question, query, comment or suggestion: you can reach us at seductionreview@gmail.com

The question that prompted this post is

“Some advice on X workshop please?”
“Why don’t you provide reviews to workshops?”
“What workshop would you recommend/should I take?”

None of us have stopped learning, however workshops for us are few and far between. We have served our apprenticeships if you will. Workshops provide a particular challenge for the reviewer: You can’t go back over the product except in your mind; they are expensive (compared to the saleable seduction products); For a lot of the review of seduction workshops it is about the experience and teaching, difficult to objectify.

That sounds pretty negative, but only for balanced review purposes. And for those reasons and more Seduction Review avoids reviewing workshops. But workshops and seminars can be important for many guys development, and if you are thinking about taking one then doing your homework is the right approach.

For anyone looking to take a workshop and looking for a perspective on what is involved and whether it is for you I suggest you go to www.seductionworkshopreviews.com. Despite the similar names Seduction Review is in no way affiliated with the Seduction Workshop Review. Note also that the reviews are submitted and experiences vary, so do take the advice on their main page and read the reviews carefully to help gauge your decision.