This month, Chase Amante interviews Skills, the natural turned pickup artist and a long-time pillar of the modern seduction community. Listen as Skills discusses how he developed his game, overcame language barriers, and made his home in seduction. • 00:00:58: how Skills learned to seduce • 00:11:23: Skill’s struggle with becoming ‘anti-game’ after club attendance fell • 00:13:57: when Skills started using seduction gambits – then lays became TOO predictable • 00:17:03: how Skills recovered from his disappointment after routine game killed the fun • 00:19:07: picking up Generation Z girls – differences, auto-rejection • 00:24:02: how Skills got involved in the seduction community and met Alek and Jeff • 00:29:52: Skills talks humor: uses & misuses in seduction • 00:34:18: one big mistake many PUAs make with humor • 00:35:23: naturals’ tendency to be dismissive of unfamiliar techniques • 00:41:54: the importance of subcommunication to game • 00:44:34: how to use openers to evaluate girls (then calibrate) • 00:46:37: Skills on neo-direct (‘no game’ approaches) vs. direct • 00:48:52: the importance of building relationships with venue staff + how to do • 00:58:03: naturals with Madonna-whore complex • 01:04:25: monogamy guys vs. hardcore polyamory guys • 01:10:18: singing as an attractive honest signal to girls • 01:14:21: Skills’s ‘competition’ frames for getting with girls • 01:19:57: Skills’s custom adaptation of Alek Rolstad’s sex talk routines • 01:27:28: Skills’s approach to building plausible deniability for the pull to his place: “My dog has to like you.” • 01:28:16: how Skills popularized Alek Rolstad’s 8 Types of Orgasm routine • 01:31:03: more on Skills’s archetype frame: “being with a Latin guy” • 01:31:51: how sex talk squares the circle of Gunwitch’s Three Keys • 01:34:17: the weakness of direct sexual game vs. sex talk seduction • 01:39:36: “the game is played with the yellows” • 01:46:14: how changing conditions have made it harder for new guys to get into seduction • 01:49:33: Skills explains his Autobiography Technique • 01:53:48: quirks of dealing with Generation Z: comfort, skittishness, sexy yet conservative • 01:58:30: looksmaxxers at the club, standing around getting no women • 02:06:33: how the looksmax movement began: an offshoot of the seduction community • 02:11:46: ways the mentalities of incels/black pill/red pill men prevent them from success • 02:16:08: why many guys don’t get second encounters with women they sleep with • 02:17:25: how Skills developed his text flirtation method • 02:20:43: Skills’s current approach to texting • 02:24:58: soft vs. hard closes: what they are + how to use them • 02:27:50: using callback references as a text opener • 02:29:25: the importance of strong initial interactions to better texting later on • 02:31:27: when to go for the soft close + how to deal with resistance while texting Listen on Girls Chase and find links to Skills’s guides and materials here: https://www.girlschase.com/article/skilled-seducer-month-march-2025-skills Find Skills on the Skilled Seducer Forum: https://www.skilledseducer.com/ Or on his website, The Skills Method: https://www.theskillsmethod.com/