I have been climbing since I was even weaker 15 year old, (now 34). Being good on slabs, good footwork and inventive in sequence finding has always been my strength.. During periods of not climbing through injury etc those skills never left me, though they might need a bit of polishing up at the begining of a climbing phase.
I have always beleived that those good climbing engrams were deeply encoded in me and would be there for ever. As the periods between climbing out doors get longer and longer, and I climb more and more exclusivly on my 40 degree board is there any risk that I would be able to overwrite the good engrams and not be able to re active them when the time comes.
I mostly plan on climbing outdoors on an annual or biannual week in Font. I expect that a couple of days intensivly climbing easyer probs and focussing on technique etc will get me half way back to decent technique for the rest of the trip. I expect that it will take longer to reactive the good engrams as the gaps inbetween get longer, but is it possible I would lose them totally and become a total buffoon?