Skilled Seducer of the Month, March 2025: Skills

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.

Listen here:

• 00:00:58: how Skills learned to seduce

• 00:04:31: Skills learns dance floor seduction; pickup w/ an accent

• 00:07:57: modeling after other guys who get results

• 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

• 00:15:50: Skills’s history and relationship with Alek Rolstad (Teevster) and Jeff Stanton (Warped Mindless)

• 00:17:03: how Skills recovered from his disappointment after routine-based game killed the fun

• 00:19:07: picking up Generation Z girls – differences, auto-rejection

• 00:22:27: on guys leaving the seduction community and methods being forgotten

• 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)

• 00:47:14: the uses of good direct game

• 00:48:52: the importance of building relationships with venue staff + how to do

• 00:53:33: how to buddy up with the bouncers at a completely new venue

• 00:56:13: how Skilled learned to articulate game and write guides

• 00:58:03: naturals with Madonna-whore complex

• 01:00:08: how shedding Madonna-whore complex improves screening

• 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

• 01:18:49: how Skills frames competition in clubs (“A lot of creepers tonight”)

• 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”

• 01:44:39: seduction-dismissive men who claim “if you don’t have girls throwing themselves at you you’re doing it wrong”

• 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

• 02:04:17: Skills’s low point: sexual dry spell, sucked deep into looksmax

• 02:06:33: how the looksmax movement began: an offshoot of the seduction community

• 02:09:18: how Skills derived his online game humor from PUAHate (now Incels.is)

• 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

• 02:22:16: Chase details his 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

A selection of some of Skills’s many valuable guides on the Skilled Seducer Forum, his website The Skills Method, and YouTube:

• Proper use of humor in a seduction

• Skills’s simple basic texting guide

• Dealing with Generation Z girls blocking you

• How Skills usually pulls girls from clubs and dates

• Using the pinky swear to create plausible deniability

• The easiest way to get a girl relaxed to guarantee sex

• Skills’s take on PYCO – Pull Your Cock Out

Want to start scooping girls up off the dance floor and into bed? Pick up Skills’s book Secrets of Dance Floor Seduction – praised by many reviewers as the go-to handbook on getting laid off dance floors.

Hope you enjoyed this interview! You can find Skills on the Forum.

NOTE: Skills has added some corrections to the interview in a new 8-minute intro he appended to this interview on his YouTube channel here. If you’d prefer to read a summary of his clarifications, you can find that here.