I impressed myself today, which is a quite rare event these days. Today was a day of complex traces without physically hard places, i.e. effectively technique on the vertical wall.
And I'm good at it - I managed to complete vertical part of the 6c trace on-sight, and then make it (with couple of falls though) two runs of 3 traces without the rest in the set. While it sucked the power I managed to recover and move over the holds without that much of efforts. But have to admit that start of the trace (on the negative horizontal slope and then physically complex move over the balcony) I did not try and will not easily complete for sure.
Another set of one-by-one traces was 7a, but I used holds from the different traces for the feet though. Two such traces without the rest at the end of the training was enough to complete the day.
Well, also some shiny new 5b trace and couple of traverses, but these do not count.
Every training, learning or exercise should end up with the positive event, albeit complex enough to match the whole process, to make it cool. And that was just bloody cool.
A famous french climber used to say: true climbing start at 6c. Below that grade, you can cope with some misformed or lack of training. Above 6c, no way, you just have to practice and practice again. The 6c/7a level is worth it, after it is more
or less the same til 7c. Have fun climbing :)
I entered it on the vertical wall only - while I can usually do all movements even on the negative slope of the traces of that complexity, I do not have enough power endurance to combine them all and finish the negative slope trace without falls.
This also applies to the vertical wall traces if there are physically complex parts thouhg.
But I work on this :)