Eduardo Telles: Octopus Guard in the Gi
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Octopus With Pajamas
By Eduardo Telles
Octopus With Pajamas presents Eduardo Telles’s gi approach in one volume. Sweeps and back takes recur across several starting guards, including a closed-guard sleeve entry. The course also covers counters using kata gatame and Ezekiel before closing with reverse-half options.
Is this for you?
- You want a compact gi course focused on octopus sweeps and back takes from several guards.
Also consider
Craig Jones: No-Gi Octopus Guard — Choose Jones for no-gi octopus with substantial D’Arce-response, buggy-choke and turtle material.
Coverage and limits
- Half-guard and butterfly sweeps, closed-guard sleeve entries, hip bumps and back takes.
- Counters to octopus and reverse-half sweeps and back takes.
Limits
- Its single volume is concentrated on gi guard exchanges; headlock and turtle offense are not developed into separate volumes.
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Octopus With Pajamas by Eduardo Telles — official listing; checked 2026-09-19. Listing inspected: instructor, gi focus, single-volume outline, sleeve and reverse-half entries, lesson labels/times and official free-sample iframe. Sample content not reviewed. On 2026-09-19 UTC, verified the introductory player in the product banner and the course cover image. Muted inline autoplay was verified on https://bjjgraph.org by observing advancing video time. The introduction content was not reviewed.
Octopus Guard 2.0 by Craig Jones — official listing; checked 2026-09-16. Listing inspected: instructor, no-gi focus, four-volume outline, lesson labels/times and official free-sample iframe. Sample content not reviewed.