Pick Up Artist Profiles
Pick Up Artists (or PUAs) are men who have dedicated themselves to developing the skills to be good with women. Really good. Below are profiles of some of the top Pick Up Artists in the seduction community, many of whom have started or coach for pickup companies dedicated to teaching guys how to improve their game.
PUA Profiles:
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Real Name: Adam Lyons |
| Age: 29 |
| Affiliation: PUA Training |
| Bio: Voted the top PUA of 2009, "AFC" Adam Lyons is one of the most well known British pick up artists and an instructor for PUA Training. |
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Real Name: JT Tran |
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| Affiliation: ABCs of Attraction |
| Bio: JT Tran, aka the Asian Playboy, is the founder of ABCs of Attraction, a pickup company that focuses on helping Asian guys be more successful with women. |
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Real Name: Daniel Messe |
| Age: 32 |
| Affiliation: Bad Boy Lifestyle |
| Bio: A well known pickup instructor from Croatia, and founder of the Bad Boy Lifestyle pickup company. |
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Real Name: Brad P |
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| Affiliation: Dating Education |
| Bio: Brad P is one of the top rated PUAs in the industry, and he is known for his innovative, longterm coaching programs and his popular fashion bible. |
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Real Name: Nick Braddock |
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| Affiliation: Love Systems |
| Bio: Braddock is one of the younger instructors for Love Systems, and is known for his college game and phone & text game. He was also featured on the Tyra Banks show, alongside Savoy. |
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Real Name: Brent Smith |
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| Affiliation: Absolute Power Dating |
| Bio: Brent Smith is a pickup instructor and founder of Absolute Power Dating, and has been featured in many of David Deangelo's seminars. |
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Real Name: Derek Cajun |
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| Affiliation: Love Systems |
| Bio: A Canadian PUA and instructor for Love Systems, Cajun is most well known for winning in the Canadian reality TV show, Keys to the VIP. |
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Real Name: Eben Pagan |
| Age: 38 |
| Affiliation: Double Your Dating |
| Bio: David Deangelo is one of the most successful "gurus" in the pickup industry, and one of the first to turn pickup into a business. His ebook, Double Your Dating, is one of the most popular introductory texts to pickup out there. |
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Real Name: David M |
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| Affiliation: Double Your Dating |
| Bio: David M is an expert on online dating and online game, and was featured in David Deangelo's Insider Internet Dating program. |
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Real Name: David Shade |
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| Affiliation: Masterful Lover |
| Bio: David Shade is one of the most well known sex experts in the seduction community, and his Manual is considered one of the best sources available for improving your sexual technique. |
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Real Name: Dharam |
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| Affiliation: PUA Training |
| Bio: A master pickup instructor for the UK-based PUA Training company, and author of the free ebook, Nice Guy Game. |
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Real Name: Darren Fuji |
| Age: 29 |
| Affiliation: Tao of DJ Fuji |
| Bio: DJ Fuji is a former Mehow Inc instructor, who now operates his own pickup company. He is known for successfully helping virgins and other hard cases expand their options with women, as well as dealing with the challenges of being an Asian pick up artist. |
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Real Name: Richard La Ruina |
| Age: 30 |
| Affiliation: PUA Training |
| Bio: Richard La Ruina, aka Gambler, is a pickup artist from London and the founder of the PUA Training company. He is known for his direct, natural game and is also a master NLP practitioner. |
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Real Name: Tynan |
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| Affiliation: Better Than Your Boyfriend |
| Bio: Tynan, aka Herbal grew to fame as one of the main protagonists of Neil Strauss' tell-all novel, The Game. He is the author of the book Make Her Chase You and runs a website on lifestyle development. |
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Real Name: Eric Von Sydow |
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| Affiliation: Real World Seduction |
| Bio: Hypnotica, real name Eric Von Sydow, is a pickup artist known for the hypnosis based seduction techniques that he pioneered. He was featured in The Game under the name "Rasputin", and has an uncanny resemblance to the X-men character, Wolverine. |
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Real Name: Stan Tayi |
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| Affiliation: Venusian Arts |
| Bio: One of the co-founders of the Venusian Arts pickup company, and co-host of VH1's reality TV show, The Pickup Artist. |
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Real Name: Justin Marks |
| Age: 30 |
| Affiliation: Arizona Lair |
| Bio: Justin "Jdog" Marks is pickup instructor and founder of the Arizona seduction lair, though he is probably best known for being Mystery's co-host on season 1 of VH1's reality TV show, The Pickup Artist. |
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Real Name: Jeffrey Allen |
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| Affiliation: Real Social Dynamics |
| Bio: Jeffy is an executive coach for Real Social Dynamics teaching out of San Francisco, as well as a writer and amateur comedian. |
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Real Name: Johnny Wolf |
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| Affiliation: ABCs of Attraction |
| Bio: Johnny Wolf is a lead instructor of the ABCs of Attraction pickup company, as well as the founder of the SoCal Lair and the co-founder of the Global PUA Summit. |
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Real Name: Jonathan Sankey |
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| Affiliation: Seduce In Seconds |
| Bio: An Australian PUA instructor and founder of Seduce In Seconds, a company that focuses on picking up women quickly. |
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Real Name: Jordan Harbinger |
| Age: 30 |
| Affiliation: The Art of Charm |
| Bio: Jordan Habinger is the co-creator of the Pickup Podcast and the founder of the New York based pickup company, The Art of Charm. He also hosts Game On, a radio show about pickup and dating on Sirius XM radio. |
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Real Name: Wayne Elise |
| Age: 41 |
| Affiliation: Charisma Arts |
| Bio: Wayne Elise (aka "Juggler") is the founder of Charisma Arts and a master of conversational game. |
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Real Name: Kezia Noble |
| Age: 27 |
| Affiliation: PUA Training |
| Bio: Kezia Noble is one of the top female pickup instructors in the industry, working with PUA Training to teach guys natural game. |
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Real Name: Lance Allen |
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| Affiliation: Pickup 101 |
| Bio: Lance Mason is a former student of Mystery and co-founder of Pickup 101, a seduction company based in San Francisco that pioneered live training exercises. |
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Real Name: Chris Odom |
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| Affiliation: Venusian Arts |
| Bio: Lovedrop is the co-founder and head instructor of the Venusian Arts pickup company, and a longtime wing of Mystery. He is the author of the Venusian Arts Revelations book. |
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Real Name: Matthew Hussey |
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| Affiliation: PUA Training, Mathew Hussey Confidence Coaching |
| Bio: Matthew Hussey is a relationship and lifestyle development coach from London, with ties to the seduction community. |
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Real Name: Michal Pospieszalski |
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| Affiliation: Mehow, Inc |
| Bio: Mehow is a former Mystery Method who went on to start his own company, Mehow Inc, which trains pickup instructors around the world in his unique pickup style. |
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Real Name: Erik von Markovik |
| Age: 38 |
| Affiliation: Venusian Arts |
| Bio: Erik von Markovik, better known as "Mystery", is one of the originators of the seduction community, and founder of the Mystery Method and Venusian Arts pickup companies. He has been featured on a reality TV show on VH1 called The Pickup Artist. |
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Real Name: Timothy Marc |
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| Affiliation: Real Social Dynamics |
| Bio: Timothy Marc, aka 'Natural Tim', is an Australian pickup instructor for Real Social Dynamics, and a strong advocate of natural game. |
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Real Name: Nicholas Benedict |
| Age: 35 |
| Affiliation: Love Systems |
| Bio: Nick Savoy co-founded the Mystery Method corporation, one of the original pickup companies. After a dispute with Mystery, Savoy went on to found a new pickup company by the name of Love Systems. |
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Real Name: Ozzie |
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| Affiliation: Real Social Dynamics |
| Bio: Ozzie is a PUA originally from Cuba, and now an instructor for Real Social Dynamics in Barcelona, Spain, helping to manage their operations and bootcamps in Europe. |
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Real Name: Nick Kho |
| Age: 30 |
| Affiliation: Real Social Dynamics |
| Bio: Nick Kho, aka Papa, is the co-founder of Real Social Dynamics, as well as a successful businessman and party organizer. |
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Real Name: Paul Janka |
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| Affiliation: Attraction Formula |
| Bio: A New York based pickup artist and instructor known for his direct game. He is the author of The Attraction Code and had been featured on Dr. Phil. |
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Real Name: Paul Jeffrey Ross |
| Age: 51 |
| Affiliation: Speed Seduction |
| Bio: Ross Jeffries is one of the founders of the seduction community, having created the alt.seduction.fast usenet group, and one of the first pickup related ebooks. He is also the founder of Speed Seduction, a pickup company with its basis in hypnosis and NLP. |
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Real Name: Pietro G. |
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| Affiliation: Project Milano |
| Bio: One of the top Italian PUAs and chief instructor and co-founder of Project Milano. |
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Real Name: Jonathan Lee |
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| Affiliation: Sinns of Attraction |
| Bio: Jon Sinn is a former Love Systems instructor who has gone on to create his own company, and is consistently ranked one of the top PUAs in the industry. |
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Real Name: Steve Piccus |
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| Affiliation: Radical Hypnotherapy |
| Bio: Steve Piccus is a trained hypnotist and sex guru, and author of the White Tiger Tantra. |
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Real Name: Neil Strauss |
| Age: 41 |
| Affiliation: Stylelife Academy |
| Bio: Neil Straus, aka "Style", is the author of The Game and the founder of the Stylelife Academy. |
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Real Name: Joshua Seltzer |
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| Affiliation: Real World Seduction |
| Bio: Swinggcat is one of the early members of the seduction community, and is credited with introducing the techniques of push-pull and meta-frame. The character Grimble in The Game was largely based on Swinggcat. |
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Real Name: Joseph Matthews |
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| Affiliation: Thundercat's Seduction Lair |
| Bio: Thundercat is a pickup artist well known in the seduction for his popular website, Thundercat's Seduction Lair, where every year he posts a list of the top 10 pick up artists. |
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Real Name: Ray Devans |
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| Affiliation: Fast Seduction |
| Bio: TokyoPUA is a well known pickup artist from Japan, and co-founder of Fast Seduction. |
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Real Name: Troy Dizon |
| Age: 28 |
| Affiliation: Troy Dizon Dating |
| Bio: Troy Dizon is a former Charisma Arts instructor who started up his own pickup company, dubbed Troy Dizon Dating, that focuses on lifestyle design and natural game. |
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Real Name: Barry Kirkey |
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| Affiliation: Barry Kirkey Radio Show |
| Bio: A comedian and radio show host, most known for his role in The Game, where he picked up the nickname "TwentySix" for not losing his virginity until he was 26 years old. |
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Real Name: Owen Cook |
| Age: 30 |
| Affiliation: Real Social Dynamics |
| Bio: Owen Cook, aka Tyler Durden (from the character in Fight Club) is the co-founder of Real Social Dynamics, and author of the Blueprint Decoded DVD set, which teaches guys not just about pickup, but of inner game. |
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Real Name: Vin DiCarlo |
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| Affiliation: DiCarlo DiClassified |
| Bio: Vin DiCarlo (formerly known as Woodhaven) is the founder of DiCarlo DiClassified, a high-end dating consultancy that offers confidential private coaching to students around the world. He is best known for the "DiCarlo Escalation Ladder", which is a step-by-step break down of kino escalation. |
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Real Name: Zan Perrion |
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| Affiliation: Enlightened Seduction |
| Bio: Zan Perrion is one of the early members of the seduction community, and a strong advocate of natural game. His company, Enlightened Seduction, teaches guys how to be more attractive to women without relying on canned lines and routines. |
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