quercus

Yes this is definitely the case. I mean that you're definitely NOT wrong when you think we're better technical climbers. How do I know this? Because I've been frequently doing all types of climbing in the past 20 years. I started rock climing indoors when I was five years old. After that I,ve been climbing outdoors and rapelling down structures. Caving, glaciers, ice climbing, dry-tooling , via ferrata, mountaineering, canyoning , rigging, working at height all came after that. I earned different certifications as years went by. Going from instructor on rock climbing and moutainguide, to certified aerial rescue expert and others... After learning how to climb a tree about nine years ago, a whole new spectrum of techniques and gear opened up for me. The ability of combining all techniques and gear just makes me a better climber. And this is not my own point of view. Over the years we've been hiring students in summer to help us out in my business. I prefer guys who do rock climbing as a hobby, because of the fact that they know how to treat gear, ropes, and know the difficultys of climbing and safety. Occasionally I let them climb trees (when for example only a few small branches have to be removed with a hand saw, and only on no-pressure jobs) then to get to know the feeling and to educate them. Sometimes I belay them from the ground, sometimes I don't. At first they don't like the specific tree-climbing techniques, because they are unfamiliar with them. But when they get to know techniques like footlocking and double roping systems, they state that they will use them in other types of climbing as well. I've already heard of these guys who worked with us in treecare, that they are using our techniques ( body thrusting and 2:1 systems ) on big walls and technical climbs.
We have a whole list of guys who want to come back to do some more climbing to learn the techniques and to add some more self-confidence. They just can't get enough of it.
Occasionally I help out riggers and technical climbers in other company's too. They all say that my techniques are far better sometimes than the techniques they use, and then they adopt them for their own area of working at heights.
I can safely say that our techniques and gear are far more advanced for aerial access, working at height and rescue, then in other types of climbing.And sometimes I am using other than tree climbing techniques in tree climbing as well, because I think those techniques can add safety to our line of work.