when walking towards/passing a HB on the street/hallway

[joee]

What is the best way to open when you are walking towards a HB on the street or in a hallway?

When is the best time to initiate eye contact? At what distance?

I say 'hi', should I stop and stand there, and if so, at what point? after she has passed?

I gather I should wait to turn towards her until I see some IOI...

Im new, and I have been doing alot of work on my bodylanguage and I am also good with being able to maintain eye contact and say 'hi' to just about everyone I pass when I am in the mood. No problems there, I just want to start capitolizing on this situation because it happens everywhere. I get a fair amount of positive interractions, and sometimes I can tell the girl digs me by the way she smiles at me, or the way she overts her eyes (quick look down).

[Mojo]

Be spontanious, as if you had a sudden urge to ask her a question or give her a compliment.

If she looks down (as you had mentioned) that indicates she is being submissive, and thus interested. If you know she is interested, open her with a routine.

While walking elicit eye contact. If you are able to maintain 3 seconds of eye contact with her as she approaches, this indicates interest. At least this what a professor of mine had stated. He had ask the class to do this as an exercise and report back with results.

- M

[DE]

my friend uses this one alot... just cause he is a little goofy he can pull it off but i have yet to try it for myself
i think this work real good when you walk by cause you'll get that what do you want look everytime..... i seen my wingman Orion do this i am in shock and awe everytime...

A classic opener by Mystery, described by Craig in Clifford’s Seduction Newsletter:

“You walk up to a girl, tilt your head to the side and look serious, stare for a second and wait for her to give you the “What do you want” look. Crack a half smile, and pull out the Pez.
Me: “Pez?”
(This is fuckin’ unreal… you can use it anywhere and it always gets a laugh. And who doesn’t love Pez?)
Her: “hehehe…I love Pez!”
Me: “Didn’t your mom warn you about taking candy from strangers?”
Her: “Yeah….”
Me: “And it’s bad for your teeth.”
Her: “Yeah, but I like it!”
Me: “Isn’t it funny how what’s dangerous can be so exciting? Tell ya what… [transition to proceeding to talk over coffee or a pattern or a #close etc]”"

[Scoundrel]

The best way I've found to open moving sets is: first, never try to follow them. Pass them and then turn back if you must. Or, even better, stand still and talk to them as they pass. If they seem to be ignoring you and keep walking just talk louder and LOUDER and LOUDER until they turn back.

Lovedrop talks about doing this on the MM DVDs.

[Neuromancer]

I love moving sets. If you can get them to turn back they feel obliged to pay attention to you otherwise they feel like idiots for coming back. Most moving sets are just going because of momentum. Break the momentum and they tend to stay put. If you can't stop the set they had a goal anyway so fuck em. Just project a "Hey, come here a minute." and if they stop, it's easier than a regular set because they are coming to you.

I just remembered when I was in college, I had access to video cameras and me and my friend Tony used to wander around with one doing interviews. 90% of sets stopped and answered whatever question we posed. My favorite was "what's your favorite flavor jello." We had a whole theory on jello flavors.

It makes me want to go out with a video camera to just open sets and record what happens. Someone bring a video camera to the event tonight and lets see what kind of trouble we can get into.