Dating Doctor helps students 'break the ice'

Nearly 50 students learned how to talk to their "hmmm," become fat penguins and avoid "the friend zone" from The Dating Doctor, David Coleman. Coleman's biggest claim to fame is the movie based on his lifetime work - "Hitch." In the movie starring Will Smith, the man everyone calls "The Dating Doctor" takes clients and shows them how to get the girl of their dreams. Just like Smith in the movie, Coleman dedicates his life sharing everything he has learned on dating to those who are completely clueless.


Coleman said when he was a student, he could pick up any girl he wanted to effortlessly but realized his friends couldn't. These friends started hanging around Coleman because they noticed he couldn't talk to all the women standing around him at once.

"By my junior year, I had guys paying me 20 bucks a weekend to be my wingman," said Coleman.


David began the seminar with four basic principles of attraction that were the key to building up the self-confidence and attack plan it takes to meet your "hmmm."


 Attraction is learnable.


 If you doubt yourself, you are already outnumbered.


 Exude positive energy and be as social as you can within your capabilities.


 You will not find the right person until you become the right person.


"A 'hmmm' is someone who stops you dead in your tracks and makes you think 'hmmm .'" said Coleman.


Coleman told the audience the key to initiating contact with your 'hmmm' was not to use pick- up lines such as "I may not be the best looking guy in this room, but I'm the only one talking to you," or "if I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together." The secret is, strangely enough, making like an arctic animal.


"I want you to be the fat penguin . I want you to break the ice," says Coleman.

Coleman pointed listeners on their way to understanding the opposite sex. Men and women often have trouble dealing with each other because they are fundamentally different. Men ask too many factual questions when they first interact with their "hmmm," but the real connection is made when they tap into the emotional side of women. The reason so many men struggle with this is because they are generally physical beings. Perhaps the biggest trouble men have is they see commitment as a loss of freedom.

On the other hand, women see relationships as a positive thing in their lives, but they understand men as well as men understand them. So instead of trying to understand men, they break Coleman's number one rule and try to change them.


"You chip and chip away at him until you realize 'he's not the person I thought he was!' That's because you've made him you," said Coleman.


After the seminar, students rushed the stage to get a prescription for their love lives from "The Dating Doctor." Women and men both stood in line hoping for solutions to their relationship problems. Afterwards, they approved of Coleman's methods.


"I would've definitely paid to see it," said Crystal Grayson.


For more dating advice, visit Coleman's Web site: datingdoctor.com.