Modern London – a Daygame Review

‘London. The birthplace of the London Daygame Model. John Bodi, Tom Torero, Jimmy Jambone, Yad, Nick Krauser, and many more. Those frontier men, those nostalgic frontier days’.

“sets everywhere”

I spent three days in London this week coaching a guy who has some solid reference experience with women via his social circle and through some other means, but who wanted to learn the basics and get some competency (which is all we can really do across three days) meeting people directly and not just on the street (daygame is a cumbersome term for men like this and often prompts the furrowed brow). I hadn’t done any daygame in London for a few years but the last time I was there I had a good time, even turning down a +1 SDL to meet up with friends. More absolute proof that BroodingSea is a well-rounded, balanced man who doesn’t bow to the alter of Fast Easy Pussy (FEP not to be confused with Fast Escalation Protocol FEP). So I was readily looking forward to proving all the London Complainers wrong yet again on this visit and show them how it’s done as I secured another +1*

I was coaching, of course, so besides a couple of demonstration sets, the training was firmly centred on the client as he took all of the sets we saw. This was especially important owing to the fact that the sets were astonishingly thin on the ground as we navigated various classic areas and hotspots over the three days. I cannot overstate this statement – it was extremely hard to find quality at times. Thankfully, the weather improved on the third day and the quality did level-up somewhat, enabling us to get a dozen or so sets in on top of the dozen we had already done. But in general terms it was eye-opening, especially when I’ve been used to the bounty of Eastern Europe. We braved inclement weather to push on and get results and cover and drill the London Daygame Model alongside the modifications I coach that complement and enrich it (cue: to learn daygame or get better at daygame message me on Telegram or X @BroodingSea or via my blog).

Nigel Farage Effect

Daygame in London is challenging. When viewed through my tiny slice of a prism filtered again by a few years separating the two visits, I can touch on some of the reasons why and echo what others have said. The principal one being the demographic shifts post-Brexit, with fewer Eastern and Central European women who were previously a significant part of the daygame scene due to the economic advantages of living in London – stockpiling relatively large savings pots before returning home to build a 5-bedroom house with money left over. Arab and Chinese tourism appears to be the single largest tourist cohort you see today. A second consideration is that many of the remaining EE/CE girls, as well as the Home Counties Blondes, are probably less receptive to spontaneous daygame interactions, owing to the fact that they have well-established social circles, as well as higher expectations. In other words, those girls who have rooted and hit their mid-20s have met some high-value men and have consequently tasted the good life that Zara PUA or Viking T-Shirt PUA just doesn’t bring to the table. She’s dated several city boys and Ameribros with money and has become the worse for it. She’s also been opened multiple times by Viking PUA and Zara PUA across this period.

Sexual invisibility of the Male 7

I have spoken about this before and will reiterate it again. Daygame is no longer a sub-cult accessible only via the darkest corners of the internet such as Gumtree (Jimmy Jambone has shared some interesting reflections on this – check our podcast here). As online dating apps have become radioactive waste zones for Male 7s in their mid-20s, these men have been forced on a herd migration into richer sexual-ecological niches that they would have considered absurd 15 years ago. It is quite apparent that post-Covid, daygame has become more socially acceptable among men and has exploded online. The few remaining women in London (just as is the case in many European cities) will have encountered spamming multiple daygame attempts, sometimes by the archetype daygamer and more commonly by well put together younger men. A strong demand for her services that are readily sellable in the online (dating) market translates to ‘bad’ attention which leads to apathy and annoyance. Conclusion: Daygame is no longer fresh, novel and new.

Pissing in the wind is, by its nature, inherently challenging

London compared to most European cities east of Germany don’t get political has a shit tonne of security measures. It is busy, loud, beautiful, expensive, tiring and often stressful. All of this has creates this mezma-cloud of urban fatigue and it permeates everything. Admittedly this could be seen by some readers as a brutal assessment (and perhaps it is) but compared to ten cities I can list of the top of my head – it lacks in many cases that positive, low-key seductive energy that many other smaller cities (and some larger ones) do have.

When lack of luck and lack of planning meets lack of opportunity

Number farming and volume approaching in London – good luck with that. Displaying a more aggressive or less calibrated style of daygame – again good luck with that. It just doesn’t seem set up for either. I don’t think it’s a ‘winter thing’ because many other European cities don’t suffer this problem. But more to the point – why would you want to adopt this method in London even if you could? The societal fabric is dire, largely caused by the post Me Too mentality and British Liberal values which push the adversarial mantra that ‘all women are victims-in-waiting” permeates London just as it does in every corner of the UK. I am perhaps overstating this in London given its huge tourist volume – so it is in all probability not as bad there as it is in many cities north of London.

The TLDR

Find a bespoke zone and work it – forget The Trawl (make of this what you will).

*I didn’t. I did 3 demo sets and coached the arse of my client.

BroodingSea, January 2025