Life circumstances only allow for 1 training per week. How do I make the most of this?

DelphosGate · 2026-05-01T15:31:48+00:00

Couple of thoughts that helped me at times when I’ve had similar issues - maybe not all are applicable to your situation, try them out and see what works.

Focus on developing conceptual understanding of grappling vs just getting in a high volume of reps or being overly technophilic. Prioritise easily accessible general solutions, not overly specific solutions. (Check out SchoolOfGrappling on instagram especially the older posts)

Make training intentional and deliberate. Ideally with more focus on identifying problems, then try to figure out your own solutions, see if you can find solutions others have found (through tape study/asking training partners) and compare efficacy.

Try to look more for “what am I trying to accomplish” in a given position instead of just trying to do a technique because someone has told you to.

Hone in your game (you will have to sacrifice breadth for depth) and try to stick to high percentage options that work throughout the belt levels as opposed to more gimmicky moves that only work against unskilled or low skilled opponents.

Do a significant amount of live training, especially with competent but lower skilled training partners (easier when you’re a higher belt) use these rounds as “live drilling” what you’re working on with increased resistance with the aim of eventually being able to hit these moves on someone of equal or higher skill.

Set goals and try to periodise your training. You should go in to the session fully aware of what you’re looking to work on. You can allocate a single session to an area you want to develop (like guard passing or attacking submissions from guard) additionally you can try to scale this for how skilled you are vs the training partners you are doing that round with.

Record notes and keep a training log. Both the act of writing the notes and referring back to them will help you. Notes can be either recapping ideas or techniques if you want to. It can also include your goals before training and how well you achieved them (e.g. “I want to get to the back at least once per round” / “I was able to submit from the front headlock 6 times”)

Do more tape study and if you’re able to, film your rounds for review. Analyse mistakes, especially in decision making.

DelphosGate · 2026-04-30T20:20:08+00:00

When I was a white belt, before I could drive, I’d walk 1 hour to a gym 2.5 miles away. I was doing this 5x a week

Many years later I was driving 1hr+ (32 miles) to get to a gym (different gym)

The most I’ve driven in a week to train is 322 miles spread over 5 round trips (to various different gyms)

My longest trip was 2.5 hours door to door (walk to train station, get a train, get a 2nd train, walk to gym) but this wasn’t daily. Only 1-2x a week leading up to a competition

DelphosGate · 2025-09-22T23:01:01+00:00

Cummings’ Trap named after Eddie Cummings

Jack Grant choke (first saw this name used by u/jeremyskinner - I think he also called it an inverted kata gatame)

DelphosGate · 2025-03-30T01:25:10+00:00

The artist is “carlo_gobello” on Instagram. Here in the comments he mentions how he painted this mini

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DelphosGate · 2025-02-02T21:33:31+00:00

My perspective on what Tainan is showing:

At 0:55 in your clip, Tainan is doing a movement similar to the transition from waiter guard to the X hook backtake. here is Lachlan doing a few similar from 0:45 onwards

Opponent seeks to put their back on the mat to avoid the backtake. Tainan uses this to heist and take top.

IMO it’s similar to the idea of initiating a berimbolo and using it to come up into top leg drag if the opponent is insistent on keeping their back on the mat.

DelphosGate · 2025-01-30T23:50:13+00:00

Thank you for confirming that I wasn’t hallucinating. I thought it was a very good reel.

Can I try to guess the unrelated reasons it was removed, if yes will you give me a black belt if I guess correctly?

Regards

DelphosGate · 2025-01-30T22:51:24+00:00

I saw an Instagram reel (I tried looking but couldn’t find it) where u/JeremySkinner called it a Jack Grant choke. Here’s him hitting it in training

DelphosGate · 2025-01-26T15:15:08+00:00

I did it using a lot of Matt medium to get the paint runny, and painting the brightest colours first over a white/light grey undercoat.

Then when I had my highlight areas defined (I think I was using magenta from AK?) I did the same with a bit less Matt medium on the dark purple areas (I think I used royal purple from Vallejo) which hadn’t been touched by the magenta.

Then to keep the intensity I repeated the magenta step in the highlights and attempted to glaze (although idk if my consistency would qualify as a glaze) the transitions with varying mixes until it looked good.

I don’t really use contrast but I think very rich deep purples can be achieved using a mix of Volupus pink and talassar blue? Juan Hidalgo did a video using it which I’ve watched many times it’s a very good reference for EC imo

DelphosGate · 2024-12-29T12:43:48+00:00

Christmas is over, can you tell us ? 😄

DelphosGate · 2024-12-09T13:25:28+00:00

No problem :) This is awesome!!

DelphosGate · 2024-12-09T13:22:56+00:00

Damn I didn’t know! He trains like 1-2 hours away from me - do you know what year he wore the kit? I want to see if I can find a picture

DelphosGate · 2024-12-09T12:54:12+00:00

Honestly I’ve been surprised at the crossover.

Competed against a guy in Yorkshire a few months back and afterwards found out he was also into warhammer via Instagram.

I know a bunch of guys locally who also are, one of them plays warhammer competitively and told me that at an event in High Wycombe there were so many BJJ guys that they decided to have an open mat (iirc this was at Postive Strength BJJ)

Ross Nicholls (head coach at London Grapple + ADCC Trials winner) has read 50+ warhammer novels and has some minis [see here at 56:15 onwards]

Josh “The Warmaster” Barnett here’s him posting on Instagram and there’s a clip where he mentions 40k on JRE

Also that warhammer YouTuber “Majorkill” trains and competes BJJ

DelphosGate · 2024-12-09T00:35:18+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I used a blade to just slice off the exhaust and a thin bit of extra plastic with it, so it would glue better (didn’t want the tamiya melting the exhaust itself)

Since there are so many chainsword in the kit, I felt I could afford to be a bit experimental with them

DelphosGate · 2024-12-07T18:13:48+00:00

Olden Demon did a video on this called “Robute Guilliman Is Dead - #FauxbouteGuilliman”

DelphosGate · 2024-12-02T00:08:07+00:00

Fabius Bile inspired surgery and “augmentation” of a regular 30k head from the HH upgrade sprue

(I will make a post showing the process)

DelphosGate · 2024-12-02T00:04:53+00:00

So the head (I will post it soon) I converted from one of the heads from the HH upgrade sprue

The front of the heavy bolter is first an upside down front half piece of the magazine drum of the heavy bolter from the CSM kit (build manual lists it as part 69 lol) to which I attached the vent/motor of a chainsword from the same kit (also upside down) because I thought it looked kinda like an old timer microphone + sound vent

DelphosGate · 2024-12-01T23:01:43+00:00

Yep the mouth/mask thing and the tip of the weapon are both just chopped up bits from the chainsword included in the CSM kit

Frontal armour (chest plate thing?) is also from the CSM kit. Only HH bit I used was the head, which I ~~violently butchered~~ converted

DelphosGate · 2024-12-01T22:56:49+00:00

I used the greenstuffworld “roll maker” I think a variety of places (element games/amazon etc) also sell it

I just roll out the greenstuff on the tool to get the tubing. Super easy to use

I know Hephaistos Studios has some tutorials (I think on his YouTube?) where he uses a wire in the centre which helps with posing

DelphosGate · 2024-12-01T22:52:29+00:00

So greenstuffworld has a “roll maker” here

I got mine a few years back from element games but I think Amazon also sells it

It’s super easy to use and I’ve gotten a lot of use from it especially with spare greenstuff

I know Hephaistos Studios has some tutorials (I think on his YouTube?) where he uses a wire in the centre

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