There is no more important equation in any of our lives than comfort versus risk. ‘Comfort versus risk’ is the alter at which dreams die. It is also the crucible wherein greatness is incubated. Let me explain what I mean. Most people are instinctively either comfort-seekers or risk-takers. Or at least, they fall somewhere along …
To book daygame coaching with Troy this April email troy@realtroyfrancis.com Amazingly, we’re nearly into the second quarter of 2019. Yes, April—and spring—are just around the corner. And with it, thoughts of love and sex, short skirts, and all of that wonderfulness. In order to mark the onset of the ‘daygame’ season (across Europe and North America …
I met up with Tom Torero in Essex last Friday, took a ferry overnight with him and his van to Holland, and then drove all day to Germany, finishing up in Hamburg for the Saturday night. It was an eventful weekend to say the least. Tom was on the first stint of his ‘Blacksheep Bandit’ …
As you will be aware, I’ve recently been filming daygame infields for my new YouTube channel. You can see the first of these here (and do please hit that subscribe button plus the notifications bell). For those uninitiated with the terminology, an ‘infield’ is an audio-visual recording of a dating coach or player walking up …
I shot a video earlier this week where I talked about my first ever daygame approach. I did the approach in a Boot’s store in Euston Station in London 14 years ago. And I still remember pretty much all of the details of it to this day. Why? Because—no way around this—daygame is an inherently unusual …
Yesterday I put up a daygame infield video up on YouTube showing me approaching and chatting to a blond Finnish girl in London. Below I break down the interaction, explain what I was doing, and call out what I did well and what I did badly. Hopefully this will help you with your own interactions. …
The thing about approach anxiety is that it never really goes away. You’d think that it would, right? But no, it doesn’t. And the ways in which it manifests itself become increasingly sneaky and seemingly underhand as time goes on. First, let me explain the terminology I’m using here. ‘Approach anxiety’, in the lexicon of …
A week ago today I was in Berlin, running around the city, visiting a few of the old haunts. The friend I was with had been to Berlin before but didn’t know it particularly well, and, because I spend a lot of time there, he was keen for me to act as tour guide. It’s probably …
I’m aware that I frequently come across online as a nihilistic bugger, particularly on Twitter (If you follow me there. If you don’t, it’s probably not advisable!) But in real life I’m not like that at all. And if my session filming infields the other day showed me anything, it’s that there’s perhaps been a …
So I spent a lot of the weekend outdoors in London shooting infields—that is, short video clips where I approach new girls, banter with them, and attempt to get their contact details. Or not, as the case may be. It was an enlightening exercise for a number of reasons. I’d never done it before, you …
