The game plan...

I've spent a lot of time wondering what direction I want to take my training. My main focus is improving climbing with a few side goals ( beast challenge, get back into a lot more grip challenges, among others). I've put a lot of thinking about what I think is the biggest factor holding me back in climbing and I think it's fear. A couple of years ago I broke my ankle in a climbing fall and my head has never been quite the same. I routinely catch myself second guessing myself when i climb. I'll be getting ready to make a move and then rather than go for it my mind goes to wondering what will happen if i fall or what is my landing like? So far I've spend time making my self jump off once i get to different heights, I spent some time with Dr. Cobb going over different ways to land and roll, but while these things helped some the issue with falling is still present. So the other day i came upon a technique from Scott Sonnon that he called his Spider technique, rather than retype it here check out the rmax magazine 6.2

http://www.rmaxinternational.com/home/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=399

Basically it's a way to use the benefit of a second wind to diminish the magnitude of whatever it is that bothers you. First you spend time thinking and visualizing what you're afraid of and when you can't take it anymore you then you immediately go into some form of cardiovascular exercise. The idea is that when your body gets its second wind in order to deal with the physical stress, the psychological stress can be lumped in at the same time. So that way you lessen your response. I do have some concerns in using this method which I'll go into later but for now it looks like I'll be using the V02 max snatching protocol as my method. I'm planning to do this about once a week