Can you game as well as Tony Hustle? Before you answer, ask a less flattering question. Are you playing the same game?

I have spent years doing this, documenting it and teaching it. If you are starting out, trying to reproduce the most spectacular thing you have seen me do is a strange place to begin. You are studying the trick shot while struggling to hold the racket.

The difference between an amateur and a professional tells you something useful about what to practise next.

Stop trying to hit the impossible shot

Think about tennis. An excellent player can win a point by placing a difficult shot exactly where the opponent cannot return it. An amateur often loses the point by putting an ordinary ball into the net.

Those are different problems. If you are making basic errors, learning a more extravagant shot will not necessarily help. Keeping the ball in play can matter much more.

I use that analogy because men repeatedly bring me the seduction equivalent of a complicated serve. They want the perfect opener, a spectacularly fast kiss, or a clever answer to an unusual situation. Meanwhile, they are missing the fundamentals in ordinary interactions.

There is nothing humiliating about being an amateur. Pretending you are already a professional is what makes learning unnecessarily expensive.

Invert the question

Instead of asking how to produce a brilliant performance, ask how you keep ruining an otherwise ordinary opportunity.

That is inversion. Turn the problem around. I discuss the principle in Universal Laws because it applies to much more than seduction. Sometimes it is easier to identify what will make something fail than to design a perfect success.

In game, that means examining repeatable mistakes before chasing exceptional moves. Where does your interaction actually go wrong? What do you keep avoiding? Which basic instruction disappears the moment you meet a woman you find attractive?

Answer from your own experience. A complication from somebody else's infield video is not necessarily the complication you need to solve.

Choose a system you can execute

This is part of the thinking behind the Straight Line Sex System. A simple process gives an inexperienced man fewer opportunities to get lost in his own head. You learn the steps, use them and find out where your execution needs work.

The attraction of a more elaborate method is obvious. It feels sophisticated. You can imagine yourself looking clever. But if you cannot reliably carry out the simpler behaviour, complexity mostly gives you more places to make mistakes.

There is a reason I distinguish describing what I do after years of experience from designing something a beginner can follow. The best learning tool is not always the most impressive performance to watch.

You do not have to become a professional seduction coach to improve your dating life. You need a workable way of meeting women and expressing your interest, with enough experience to recognise when it is reciprocated.

Work on the error that is yours

The discussion of specific mistakes continues in the longer member recording. The principle you can use immediately is already clear.

Look at your last few interactions and identify one basic mistake that keeps repeating. Make that the focus of your next session. Keep the task small enough that you can tell whether you did it differently.

Forget being Tony Hustle for a minute. Get your own ball across the net.