Without moving far, he can tap into the wisdom of a World Cup winner, a British & Irish Lion, as well as an England international as his front row colleagues.
But the 24-year-old admits he has loved learning from two legendary Welsh props.
It was Adam Jones on the summer tour to Japan, while now he is picking up tips from the other one-time ‘Hair Bear’, Duncan Jones.
Between them, the two Ospreys legends picked up 152 Welsh caps and were Grand Slammers together in 2008.
Duncan has been coaching with the senior side at the Ospreys since 2018, while Adam joined the Harlequins backroom staff the same year.
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Adam worked with Wales in the 2025 Six Nations and in Japan, while Duncan was recruited to Steve Tandy’s new coaching team this season to support the players in the Quilter Nations Series.
“Adam was really helpful to me and I learned a lot from him on the Japan tour,” says 24-year-old Griffin.
“I think we did a better job in that second game against the Japanese and that’s because of the learnings we took from the first one and the work Adam did with the front row between the games.
“We just locked them out of that second game because they had used the scrum as a way into the first one.
“We certainly stopped them doing that in the second.
“I like the way that Duncan thinks and acts and he’s part of a good coaching staff.
“I watched both of them - Adam and Duncan - playing when I was growing up, although when I was younger I wanted to be a back.
“There has been good buy-in so far. A lot of the things we've been talking about in camp are to do with care and connection.
“You saw that a lot even before we were in camp with coaches coming to players and all that, asking what needed to change and what's needed going forward - making sure that that's the baseline for our whole campaign.”
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Griffin, who has six caps to date, is joined by Keiron Assiratti and Chris Coleman in fighting for the No 3 jersey this month.
Battling to get a game is nothing new to him as that is what he does week-in, week-out at Bath.
The West Country club returned to the pinnacle of English rugby last season when they won the Premiership title.
They also scooped the EPCR Challenge Cup in Cardiff, although Griffin wasn’t a part of either matchday 23 for those occasions.
“It's a competitive environment at Bath and it’s because we’ve got that depth that we’re able to stay ahead of everyone,” he says.
“I'm always getting tested because I’ve got Ben Obano and Francois van Wyk, and sometimes Thomas du Toit when he comes across, to train against.
“I’ve got Thomas and Will Stuart ahead of me and they are both very helpful. I remember coming off the back of the Australian tour last year and when we got back together at Bath the first thing Thomas did was come up to me and say, ‘I watched your stuff from Oz, this is what I think you can do better.’
“The most important thing is knowing where you want to be. I'm eager to do whatever I can for the shirt, and just try and hold onto it for as long as I can.
“For me, scrumming has been a big work-on, consistency-wise. I've had some good performances, but others that have shown I have one or two areas to work on.
“Around the park is something I can bring to the team, getting into spaces and providing some go-forward. But consistency in scummaging is something I've been working on.”
Griffin was one of many players who returned to Wales duty with a spring in their step after ending the long, painful run of 18 Test defeats with that victory in the second Test in Japan.
Now, he wants that triumph to be a springboard for further success in the future.
“We talk week by week training-wise about slingshotting into the weekend and match days.
“Coming off the back of a win, that's going to slingshot us into this campaign.
“It was my first win in the Welsh shirt and for a lot of other boys, too. I was just pleased and relieved and now I want to get my first win at the Principality Stadium.
“For this campaign, we’re looking for three words to describe us - tough, brave and smart.
“Success would be that connection with the fans, and then when you ask them ‘what do you think about the Wales team?’, those three words come out of their mouths.
“Everything goes back to those three words and how we want to define ourselves. Success will be if those three words are how everyone else defines us.”
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