Downclimbing during Linked Bouldering Circuits?

[rctmdotcom]

"P" asked: 

PE - bouldering laps. Are you suggesting that for a sequence of continuous laps that you downclimb a problem or just downclimb period? As example: #1: V4, V2, V2, V5. Would you be ascending V4, descending V2, ascending V2, and descending V5? That didn't really make a great deal of sense from the reading and picture and I was hoping you might be able to give insight. Just seems like you would get more bang for the buck descending on easier holds then hitting crux again, but will wait for your insight.

[MarkAnderson]

For a Linked Bouldering Circuit, you should climb up the first problem, down the second problem, up the third problem, down the fourth problem, and so on.

[Mike Anderson]

Really, you can do it either way, but you want to ensure that your down climb isn't so easy that it's essentially a rest -- a really common mistake. That's why Mark suggests down climbing a graded problem. If you force yourself to do that, you won't pick something too easy.

Like you pointed out, it would be weird to climb up a V2, then down a V5, so in that scenario, you might do an ungraded down climb, or the V2 might be a traversing problem that ends where the V5 starts.