Cold approach

Cold approach

Field	Pickup
Also known as	cold approaching, street pickup, daygame approach

A cold approach is opening someone you have no social tie to — no friend-of-a-friend, no app match, no workplace. Daygame is cold approach in daylight on the street, in shops, on transit. Nightgame is cold approach in bars and clubs. The Newbie assignment is a cold-approach on-ramp that starts with "hi."

Why it is the prestige skill

The seduction community treats cold approach as proof you can generate romance from a blank street. Social-circle and app game can produce more sex per hour for many men; they do not produce the same "I can do this in a foreign city" claim. PUA Lingo called cold approach the form that makes a man "free in the world."

Cost

Approach anxiety is the tax. Most dropout happens before the first "hi," not after the tenth rejection. Training programs (Mystery bootcamps, the assignment, daygame in-fields) are almost entirely anxiety-exposure machines with technique bolted on.

See also

• Daygame
• Nightgame
• Opener (pickup)
• Approach anxiety
• Direct game

Sources

• PUA Lingo, "Cold Approach," Vince Lin (pualingo-1391). Rewrite.
• Chase Amante, Newbie assignment (2012).