That reddit post lead me to an UG thread where Roy posted the following:
Hilarious.
That was a god tier post.
I can't even laugh. I'm just in complete and total awe that he would post that.
That post struck me as a blatantly facetious. Maybe he was being serious, but it hit the notes too perfectly for me to think it anything other than a joke.
So he's joking? Does he usually joke like that online? I hope he's joking.
That reddit post lead me to an UG thread where Roy posted the following:
Hilarious.
i think that UG post was a bit tongue in cheek
it is sad to see him lose his students as stuart seems like a bit of a dbag and his vids pretty much suck.
for a long time i got stuart and hywel confused. then i realized that hywel was the one that made good vids which did not suck
I think he was dead serious.
He's never come across as a troll. He's talked about pick up artist stuff before. His instructional vids always come across as NLPish. The only reason to think it was a joke is because realizing it wasn't would cause all these bad feels.
I think he was dead serious.
He's never come across as a troll. He's talked about pick up artist stuff before. His instructional vids always come across as NLPish. The only reason to think it was a joke is because realizing it wasn't would cause all these bad feels.
I mean, I don't care either way, though if it's true, it becomes less funny and much more creepy.
I just thought that line about off balancing so they come closer and comparing a pick up artist to Royce at UFC 1 were so outlandish things for a sane man to say that they had to be jokes. Maybe not.
This situation is sad if students are truly leaving his academy over what so far has been a "he said, she said" situation.
Roy is a tall, in-shape, decent-looking guy who has a cool job that he is successful at and probably has a few sheckles in the bank. He's well-spoken, interesting and passionate. Getting women should come pretty easily to a guy like that.
My impression is that Roy was probably very awkward and shy as a teenager/college student and didn't have much success with girls, that's why he threw himself into judo, aikido, JJJ and BJJ. You don't have 4 black belts by the time you're ~30 if you're drowning in pussy.
I think despite turning out to be a well-respected instructor and successful business man, his insecurities with women carried over into adulthood and perhaps that's why he resorted to this PUA stuff to boost his confidence. And maybe that's why he couldn't let go of being rejected by his secretary, if that's what actually happened.