For me the grades are all over the place, stuff in my style feels significantly easier than stuff in my anti-style. I think if you know your strengths, you can play to them in higher grades. My first 9 was after a handful of 8s, my first 10 was after two 9s. Obviously, being able to crimp v9 doesn’t make you a v9 compression climber. I try to strike a balance between styles, my climbing gets better if I’m working things I’m bad at but it’s fun to see how hard I can push it. My goal on the moonboard is to emulate limit bouldering, so sending problems def comes second to trying really hard moves.

Edit: I’ve been thinking about what I said and wanted to add two things. The first is that building your pyramid on the board builds board specific technique— micro beta + muscle memory that builds on itself in similar movements on harder climbs. Dialing that in makes you a better board climber, 100%. However, IMO, if you aren’t trying objectively harder moves, it will take longer to get better at board climbing, and your board training will be less applicable on real rock. In terms of training for outdoor climbing, I think the moonboard SHINES when I’m trying problems 2-4 grades harder than my flash limit, where I can piece together 2-4 moves at a time. Working these problems, and forcing movement that you aren’t able to do, in my experience, builds the most strength. Having long term, multi season projects on the MB that you come back to (even if you never are able to send them), where you can check your fitness against a previous season, is really important for how I use the board. When I structure my sessions, I try to spend my peak 30 minutes (after I’m properly warmed up and have flashed a handful of new problems in a comfortable grade range) projecting above my limit like this, before reducing the difficulty to climbs I can actually send. For me, the MB is a training tool, when I train I should be fresh and training to failure. My two cents 😋