Slabs are not about if you POTENTIALLY can climb them (they all can), but if you ACTUALLY can climb them, right here, right now. Mao does nothing superhuman here.
It goes back to my metaphor with the two bottles and their narrower and wider openings.
Mao’ bottle has a wide opening in this situation. She can demonstrate her skills, the opening is wide enough for her capabilities to flow. The flow of skills of all the other competitors though is held back by the narrow opening. The narrower opening stands for quite different potential issues. It could be choking under pressure, failing to read the climb properly or a million of other reasons.
Instead of honing your skills further and further - often it is smarter investigate what keeps you from expressing your skills and capabilities.
