Generally speaking there are a huge amount of resources out there for how to fix your weaknesses in climbing, either informal advice, professional training, youtube videos etc. If your fingers are weak, fingerboard. If your footwork is bad, foot drills, etc etc etc.
Part of the problem, though, is identifying your weaknesses. That's actually quite hard to do, especially when you climb harder than maybe your usual climbing partners, or usually climb alone, or are somewhat inexperienced. It's all too common to hear "I am not strong enough" from new people and we know that actually what they mean is they aren't using their strength effectively (not that they don't need to get stronger, but it's not their immediate issue), but once you get past that a bit it starts to be really hard to know where should my training focus be?
I recently hung out with a friend who has a lot more experience than me who identified that I am actually pretty poor at generating power from just my forearms with bad feet, and that while I am good at keeping my feet on, I also need to focus on generating dynamic power where I cut as sometimes that is the best way to do a mood. The solution; campus boarding and doing dynamic moves on the beastmaker board. However that's probably been a weakness of mine for a while, and I never noticed! How do you guys identify your specific weaknesses (not "I could do with better technique" that's far too broad, I mean specifically an area which is trainable in your next cycle), or in fact is that just something that's really hard to do without having an experienced from or, for the billy no mates, forking out to the lattice boys and girls or somesuch?
Part of the problem, though, is identifying your weaknesses. That's actually quite hard to do, especially when you climb harder than maybe your usual climbing partners, or usually climb alone, or are somewhat inexperienced. It's all too common to hear "I am not strong enough" from new people and we know that actually what they mean is they aren't using their strength effectively (not that they don't need to get stronger, but it's not their immediate issue), but once you get past that a bit it starts to be really hard to know where should my training focus be?
I recently hung out with a friend who has a lot more experience than me who identified that I am actually pretty poor at generating power from just my forearms with bad feet, and that while I am good at keeping my feet on, I also need to focus on generating dynamic power where I cut as sometimes that is the best way to do a mood. The solution; campus boarding and doing dynamic moves on the beastmaker board. However that's probably been a weakness of mine for a while, and I never noticed! How do you guys identify your specific weaknesses (not "I could do with better technique" that's far too broad, I mean specifically an area which is trainable in your next cycle), or in fact is that just something that's really hard to do without having an experienced from or, for the billy no mates, forking out to the lattice boys and girls or somesuch?