James Matador

James Matador, a.k.a Matador, co-star of VH1's The Pickup Artist, is an accomplished actor, businessman, and dating coach. A key player in the seduction community, he is counted amongst the best pick-up artists in the world. He was featured in the 2007 VH1 reality television series The Pick-up Artist, now in its second season. He is Mystery’s longtime friend and wingman, and is the co-founder of their company Venusian Arts.
Biography
Prior to his involvement in the seduction community, James Matador studied Computer Science at Depaul University, obtaining his degree on 1997. He went on to work in the information technology industry, as well becoming an amateur body builder and competitive martial artist, winning Texas state and national championships in Taekwondo.
But despite his successes in other aspects of his life, Matador still found the dating world to be quite a challenge. After many broken hearts, he purchased his first piece of material from the seduction community in 1999. Thus began a journey of serious self-improvement which ultimately ended up with him working with Mystery as a dating coach himself.
In 2007 Matador Co-Founded the Venusian Arts with fellow business partners and friends Chris Odom (Lovedrop) and Erik Von Markovik (Mystery) because of dissatisfaction with Mystery’s former business manager .
Matador has been featured in a number of magazines, newspapers, and interviews, with some of the more notable features including CNN, the New York Times, and the Daily Show with John Stewart. He has also spoken at Yale University on the topic of social dynamics and dating.
Matador will also play himself in the upcoming movie Let the Game Begin, set to release in 2009.
Technique and contributions
Matador is most notable for his "Matador Mayhem" technique, a process in which he allows himself to be chased by multiple women simultaneously by hugging, kissing, and making out with many women at the same time, causing all the women involved to feel jealous of one another and compete for his attention. His name has also become synonymous with the concepts of cave-manning (leading the physical escalation of an interaction in a confident and masculine way), and Alpha-Male body language (projecting the idea that one is the leader of the group their one’s body language) even though he did not create the terms themselves.
Matador is often quoted for his line “Life is about creating oneself and not waiting to find it.”
Matador has trained hundreds of men in the field of seduction, many of which have gone on to become top instructors for some of the worlds largest dating companies. He has taught live bootcamps and seminars all over the world, and has become a leading instructor in the Pick-Up Arts. He was also the first instructor (with the exception of Mystery himself) to lead his own LIVE programs.
Professional involvement
James Matador is a contributor to Revelation, a book distributed by The Venusian Arts Corporation, which is considered the current, and most accurate version of the Mystery Method. He currently co-owns Venusian Arts, which runs seminars to teach men seduction, organizes "in field" workshops (in which he takes his students out to nightclubs and critiques their game in a live environment), and sells a variety of multimedia products on this theme.
Matador also starred and consulted on a reality series titled The Pick-up Artist, which debuted on August 6, 2007 on VH1. In the series, Mystery and his wingmen, Matador and JDog, trained eight "lonely, socially inept" men in an eight week bootcamp in Austin, Texas to compete for the title of "Master Pick-Up Artist". A second season debuted on October 12, 2008. Matador also held his first college seminar on February 13, 2007 at Yale University.
Matador has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Pick-up Artists Of The Year on Thundercat's Seduction Lair, as well as in TSB Magazine. Mystery himself has stated “If there is one guy I wouldn't want to go up against, it would be Matador".
Bibliography
* Revelation (2008). Mystery, Chris Odom, James Matador. ISBN 978-0-9818733-005
Media Attention
Matador and his involvement in the seduction community have drawn the attention of the media on a number of occasions, including television appearances, magazine articles, and newspapers.
Interviews and spots
* , October 22, 2008.
* , April 9, 2008.
* CNN, Posted on February 14, 2008.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?vhFq45e-d5fY&eurlhttp://www.venusianarts.com/Default.aspx?tabid=136 Fox & Friends], Posted on September 26, 2007.
* YoungHollywood.com Interview, Posted on June 28, 2007.
* The Single Life with Sam Phillips, December 26, 2007.
Newspaper and Magazine articles
* Star Magazine, October 27, 2008.
* AskMen.com, September 5, 2007.
* New York Times, August 13, 2007.
* Yale Daily News, February 14, 2008.
See Also
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*Mystery Method
*Neil Strauss
*Dating coach
*Seduction community
* The Pick-up Artist
*The Pick-up Artist 2

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