Go down a grade or even two grades from your maximum climbing grade. Ideally find a route that you are intimate with and now climb that route using the following methods, using one method on each attempt;
Video yourself at every opportunity... Critically review these, but most importantly identify the things that you are seeing improvement and progress in, try to emulate those in all your climbs.
Building strength and conditioning should be used to make climbs both smoother and easier, not to power through a climb... There will always be that crux that will be an interruption to the flow and require some muscle and gritting of teeth, but the efficient climb to that point will ensure you have the energy to get past it!
Using these methods has really helped me progress and I feel now like some harder climbs are not sapping as much energy as they do for others. Of course moving through the grades these skills much be matched with strength and conditioning, but if your can build smooth and efficient technique then your grades with accelerate faster. I can honestly say that 80% of my failed attempts are due to my not using the methods I should, which has resulted in bad beta, foot slips or loss of energy/premature skin erosion.
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