JT Tran
Encyclopedia
Jerry Tran, sometimes credited as JT Tran or The Asian Playboy, is a dating coach
and pickup artist
as well as featured dating advice
columnist
for major publications such as LA Weekly
and Baller Magazine
. Titled the World’s Greatest Asian Pickup Artist 2007 by the Global Seduction Summit in Hollywood, the Asian Playboy is also the founder
, CEO and Lead Instructor
of ABCs of Attraction
a place that teaches men pickup skills and the art of seduction
. The Asian Playboy specializes in a holistic approach that gives him the ability to command the attention of women through body language
, psychology
and sexual
projection.
, he began to develop his own methods of attraction, concentrating on developing his own holistic approach to the art of seduction
. Through his personal blog
in which he talked about his adventures in the dating game, his successes and failures, he received a telephone call from a woman whose son had been harassed and bullied at his high school by neo-Nazis. She had been reading The Asian Playboy's blogs and believed that he could help her son overcome his shyness and help him to be assertive enough to get through the bullying. She paid for Tran to fly out to her home in Canada
and he spent three days helping her son improve his confidence and social skills. This chance decision of flying out to Canada was the initial spark for Tran's career, and the starting point of his company, ABCs of Attraction, which he launched in 2005.
while courting and dating women. The Asian Playboy mainly teaches shy Asian men confidence and communication skills.
Tran appears at a wide range of events and seminar
s, offering bootcamps which last from three days to several weeks. Each boot camps is designed to help men improve their social interaction skills. The Asian Playboy works along several instructors and coaches including Johnny Wolf, Sarah Ann the Wing-Girl, Ozzie AKA The Latino Gentleman and William AKA Man Cannon. Andrew AKA Showtime left the team in early 2011.
and Nguoi Viet Daily News
, as well as other newspapers such as The Harvard Crimson
where he was the featured guest speaker at the Harvard University event "Between the (Pickup) Lines", D Magazine
, Hyphen Magazine
and a featured interview with Yale Daily News
.
In May 2011, he was featured in New York (magazine)
in an article about Asian-Americans who were able to fight the "bamboo ceiling
".
Tran spoke at Yale
for Master's Tea (other notable personalities who were similarly honored to speak for Master's Tea include actor Denzel Washington
) and was featured in The Yale Herald
. He has also been a featured guest speaker for the University of Chicago
.
The Asian Playboy is also a featured dating advice
columnist
for major publications like LA Weekly (weekly columns) and Baller Magazine (a poker lifestyle magazine). Tran has appeared on several TV stations such as Saigon Broadcasting Television Network
, Channel 5 ABC and Chicago Philippine Report TV ("CPR TV"). Tran also paired up with fellow female pickup artist
, Kezia Noble for a PUA all-star workshop.
Dating coach
Dating coaches offer products and services to improve their clients' love lives.Through discussion, role-playing, behavior modeling, and other forms of direction, a dating coach trains clients to meet and attract romantic partners. As dating coaches are unlicensed, their methods vary widely...
and pickup artist
Pickup artist
Pickup artist describes a man who considers himself to be skilled, or who tries to be skilled at meeting, attracting, and seducing women.The use of pickup in this context, slang for making a casual acquaintance with a stranger in anticipation of sexual relations, dates from at least the World War,...
as well as featured dating advice
Advice column
An advice column is a column in a magazine or newspaper written by an advice columnist . The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt"...
columnist
Columnist
A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....
for major publications such as LA Weekly
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
and Baller Magazine
Baller Magazine
Baller Magazine is a poker lifestyle magazine published in Singapore and owning media licenses in both Singapore and Hong Kong. The magazine is considered the most prominent poker magazine in Asia by the Asian Poker Ratings magazine....
. Titled the World’s Greatest Asian Pickup Artist 2007 by the Global Seduction Summit in Hollywood, the Asian Playboy is also the founder
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, CEO and Lead Instructor
Instructor
Instructor may refer to:In education:* Professor of a technical subject like dance or civil engineering at a university* A teacher of a specialised subject that involves skill**flight instructor**drill instructor**Physical Training Instructor...
of ABCs of Attraction
ABCs of attraction
ABCs of Attraction, founded by JT Tran "The Asian Playboy", specializes in social skills, the art of seduction and confidence building for men. The company holds events, seminars and boot camps across the world and has received media coverage from magazines, newspapers, and TV.- Instructors :Staff...
a place that teaches men pickup skills and the art of seduction
Seduction
In social science, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person to engage. The word seduction stems from Latin and means literally "to lead astray". As a result, the term may have a positive or negative connotation...
. The Asian Playboy specializes in a holistic approach that gives him the ability to command the attention of women through body language
Body language
Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely subconsciously....
, psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
and sexual
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
projection.
Biography
After Tran attended one of the pick up artist Mystery's bootcampsTraining camp
A training camp is a place, usually with an army-camp-type environment, where people go to learn skills, usually skills involving physical action rather than book subjects, usually for an armed force or an action sport...
, he began to develop his own methods of attraction, concentrating on developing his own holistic approach to the art of seduction
Seduction
In social science, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person to engage. The word seduction stems from Latin and means literally "to lead astray". As a result, the term may have a positive or negative connotation...
. Through his personal blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
in which he talked about his adventures in the dating game, his successes and failures, he received a telephone call from a woman whose son had been harassed and bullied at his high school by neo-Nazis. She had been reading The Asian Playboy's blogs and believed that he could help her son overcome his shyness and help him to be assertive enough to get through the bullying. She paid for Tran to fly out to her home in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and he spent three days helping her son improve his confidence and social skills. This chance decision of flying out to Canada was the initial spark for Tran's career, and the starting point of his company, ABCs of Attraction, which he launched in 2005.
Techniques
Tran introduced the concept of the ABCDEF structure which incorporates three main components, namely: thoughts, actions, and words. The concept teaches men how to develop their attitudes, change the manner of their dress, and convey sexualityHuman sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
while courting and dating women. The Asian Playboy mainly teaches shy Asian men confidence and communication skills.
Tran appears at a wide range of events and seminar
Seminar
Seminar is, generally, a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is...
s, offering bootcamps which last from three days to several weeks. Each boot camps is designed to help men improve their social interaction skills. The Asian Playboy works along several instructors and coaches including Johnny Wolf, Sarah Ann the Wing-Girl, Ozzie AKA The Latino Gentleman and William AKA Man Cannon. Andrew AKA Showtime left the team in early 2011.
Media attention
Tran and his company have hit the front pages of AsianWeekAsianWeek
AsianWeek was a widely circulated publication of Asian American news, across all Asian ethnic groups, providing coverage of Asian-American issues such as the killing of Vincent Chin, Asian American college admissions, and quotas on Chinese students in competitive San Francisco examination schools...
and Nguoi Viet Daily News
Nguoi Viet Daily News
Nguoi Viet Daily News was the first and largest daily newspaper published in Vietnamese in the United States. The newspaper was started by Yen Ngoc Do in 1978. Its name derives from người Việt, meaning "Vietnamese people"....
, as well as other newspapers such as The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. It is the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates...
where he was the featured guest speaker at the Harvard University event "Between the (Pickup) Lines", D Magazine
D Magazine
This article is about the magazine about Dallas. For the Italian magazine, see La Repubblica.D Magazine is a monthly magazine covering Dallas-Fort Worth. It covers a range of topics including politics, business, food, fashion and lifestyle in the city of Dallas. The first issue was published in...
, Hyphen Magazine
Hyphen (magazine)
Hyphen is an American magazine, produced three times a year by a volunteer staff; it is a not-for-profit organization. It was founded in 2002 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area journalists, activists, and artists including Melissa Hung, a former reporter for the Houston Press and East Bay...
and a featured interview with Yale Daily News
Yale Daily News
The Yale Daily News is an independent student newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878...
.
In May 2011, he was featured in New York (magazine)
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
in an article about Asian-Americans who were able to fight the "bamboo ceiling
Glass ceiling
In economics, the term glass ceiling refers to "the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements." Initially, the metaphor applied to barriers in the careers of women but...
".
Tran spoke at Yale
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
for Master's Tea (other notable personalities who were similarly honored to speak for Master's Tea include actor Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...
) and was featured in The Yale Herald
The Yale Herald
The Yale Herald is a newspaper run by undergraduate students at Yale University since 1986. As a weekly, the paper aims to provide in-depth, investigative reporting, and includes comics, arts and entertainment coverage, sports and intramurals sections, and coverage of campus and local events...
. He has also been a featured guest speaker for the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
.
The Asian Playboy is also a featured dating advice
Advice column
An advice column is a column in a magazine or newspaper written by an advice columnist . The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt"...
columnist
Columnist
A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....
for major publications like LA Weekly (weekly columns) and Baller Magazine (a poker lifestyle magazine). Tran has appeared on several TV stations such as Saigon Broadcasting Television Network
Saigon Broadcasting Television Network
Saigon Broadcasting Television Network, abbreviated SBTN, is the first 24-hour Vietnamese language channel geared towards the Vietnamese diaspora. It is currently available in the United States on many cable systems as well as through DirecTV. The channel provides children, arts, entertainment,...
, Channel 5 ABC and Chicago Philippine Report TV ("CPR TV"). Tran also paired up with fellow female pickup artist
Pickup artist
Pickup artist describes a man who considers himself to be skilled, or who tries to be skilled at meeting, attracting, and seducing women.The use of pickup in this context, slang for making a casual acquaintance with a stranger in anticipation of sexual relations, dates from at least the World War,...
, Kezia Noble for a PUA all-star workshop.