I live in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. There are no bjj clubs here unfortunately so I started training with Reehan Sabri who was a purple belt at the time and was working in Shetland for 6 months. We trained in a small group twice a week in the gi until Reehan moved away. We then decided to keep training following the Gracie Combative instructionals where myself and another training partner managed to gain our Gracie blue belts in late 2013 through the Gracie Academy by submitting various videos demonstrating the techniques to be graded. We continued with the master cycle course but I then moved to Australia for a short time where I trained at the Submission Factory Geraldton under Oliver Murray for around 3-4 months in total both gi and nogi. I then returned to Shetland in late 2015 and started training with a small group of friends, mainly going through the Gracie Combatives curriculum again. After a couple of years and various lower back problems the training stopped due to lack of a qualified instructor but I started up again with another small group after buying 30m2 of tatami mats and we have been training weekly, mainly in the gi now using what experience I had gained and more lately using Roy Deans blue belt requirements and various other instructionals to teach us new techniques. Other than that, I have been away to Orkney SBG for a couple of sessions and had a session at Paraiso BJJ in Great Yarmouth this year. We have also had a few visiting students up to Shetland thanks to a post I put on the Globetrotters Facebook page and we even had a visiting Black Belt, Johnny Martin, from Rick Youngs academy in Edinburgh stop by for a couple of classes. The aim now is to try and get off island a few times a year for some proper instruction and the rest of the year we will continue learning and training as we are at the moment.