Dent wrote: An artist can make a painting or a sculpture and show it to someone and they might say "I think you need to give it more time". Its not a specific question about the amount of hours or the exact time. It rather means that you have to put in more time in general to get better.
Yes.... That's the way I always understood the phrase as well.
Quote: I mean wouldn't it be awesome to train 18 hours a day 7 days a week? But who can do that, practically nobody...
Hmmmm.... considering the amount of gear (PEDs) top BJJ competitors are on I wouldn't be surprised they actually can train that much. LOL
Quote: When it comes to the term "Mat time" I think people refer to experience on the mat, more than the actual exact hours training spent there. It's not the same "mat time" to lay on the mat for 4 hours or to train hard for two hours. Its not about the actual "Mat" its about getting the training in.
Yes....
That would be exactly right.
So let me expand on my question:
My motivation to ask the question in the first place was to keep a record.
I'm a bit of an autistic geek and I like to keep stats and records.
It helps me get motivated when I don't feel like training.
Like I have 5 years of Calisthenics training written down in the form of crossing lines for each set I do. (like 4 diagonal |||| then 1 line across)
And I conditioned myself to get a dopamine hit every time I fill out my weekly sheet with little lines.
I would literally train some days (when I felt lazy) for the sole reason to fill out my sets sheet.
And when I started Wrestling and BJJ I kept drawing lines on my sheet.
But it's not really representing the workout as well as it did for Calisthenics and Weight training.
So I'm thinking to start keeping record in "Mat Time".
Each training I do I would bump my numbers by XX minutes.
And in another 5 years I could say: "I have 1000 mat hours" instead of saying "I doing bjj for 5 years."
Knowing myself I think this would be a great motivation and a reason to get out on the Mat on the days I feel like not doing it.
But I'm not sure what exactly should I count as "Mat Hours".
Hence I came to ask for a second opinion.
Warm-up is not getting me better at grappling if it is not grappling based warm-up. So it might be Mat Time but it also might not be.
Drilling is getting me better at grappling so I think it should be counted as Mat Time even tho it isn't with resistance.
Rolling is definitely getting me better at grappling.
Anyway... 
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