I Don't Remember Life Before Jiu-Jitsu

Nicholas Guillemette teaches full time at Team Evolution HQ in Gatineau, Quebec which is located in Canada's National Capital Region. He started at five, quit completely from sixteen to nineteen, and has trained full time since coming back. Our conversation is one about finding your limits. Where they sit, how he found it, and what he will not spend to cross it. We talk training volume, lifting, what a heavyweight owes the room when he rolls at somebody else's gym. Why wrestling changed his competition nerves more than his results. Constraint games and drilling in his classes, and why he thinks the standard positional round teaches nothing. Nogi, gi, Pans in October, No-Gi Worlds in December, and the black belt he asked to postpone. After talking to Nic, it is hard to tell he is only 24. Coaching at the academy his family built, and direct about the trade: teaching is selfless, competing is selfish, and he did both badly before he found a split that held. Recorded on site at Team Evolution HQ in Gatineau, Quebec. Guest: Nicholas Guillemette, Team Evolution HQ, 74 Boulv. Greber, Gatineau, Quebec | www.artsmartiauxevolution.com | @nickyg_bjj | @teamevolutionhq About: Grappling Monthly produces weekly long-form interviews exploring Brazilian jiu-jitsu culture, academia building, and community. Hosted by Sebastien Maniatopoulos. Available on YouTube, Instagram, Substack, and major podcast platforms.