Can you win by throw in MMA? No. But you can outpoint you opponent by throwing him. Same in BJJ.
Disproportionate risk to reward ratio-
Regardless of your stories about premodern judoka supposedly killing each other with throws on wooden floors, the fact is that if you throw a fighter on his back he can keep fighting from his back. If you want the fight to be over, you have to finish him with strikes or a submission hold.
Sure if you throw a man on his back on a soft surface on a 1 on 1 situation, he can keep fighting. If you think that somehow judo is more restricted on his own game than BJJ its on its own, then you are delusional, rules are there for a reason.
If your logic was true then wrestling which is by comparison to judo even more restricted would suck for MMA.
In the context of MMA, Jake's AJJ idea makes a bit more sense. BJJ is so far the most applicable grappling style for MMA because of the submissions,
Oh really? Hasn't Galvao just lost to a wrestler? the fact remains that if you can't strike or wrestle your BJJ its completely useless.
but guard pulling is not a good strategy in MMA, the striking makes it too dangerous. But if instead of passively accepting guard position like BJJ teaches you to do, AJJ emphasizes fighting for the TD, so it more closely reflects MMA grappling than either BJJ or freestyle wrestling can. Makes sense for MMA.
Exactly, so why can't AJJ be its own style? somehow BJJ which until the last 20 years looked exactly like Judo but with a different emphasis and mentality is different but AJJ is not?
The difference is BJJ wasn't "invented" by a boy with a few years of practice who can't even handle a second tier MMA striker. It was developed by a whole and huge family through what is almost 100 years now.
and by crosstraining and fighting with even more people, yet until big tournaments came in, it was basically judo newaza, if you see how Royce fought and how BJJ matches are fought today, there is a lot of different yet they are the same art.
A family with several members with several different body types, personalities and personal styles and a family which the members practicing BJJ undoubtedly dominated their opponents on the mat with such techniques.
In the USA, they were not dominating everyone in Brazil or Japan, well Rickson did well against pro-wrestlers in Japan, but lets be real, Saku would had destroyed him.
This is why BJJ has revolutionized martial arts, this is why BJJ is the fastest growing martial art (no, MMA is not a martial art, it is a rule set and you can argue that there wouldn't be MMA without BJJ, at least not as we know it today)
In the USA. I like that BJJ opened a lot of eyes to submission fighting, but it was nothing new under the sun for other countries, just a different approach, a small tweak. Yet nobody is questioning legitimacy.
this is why BJJ is a fundamental base for MMA and this is why we are having a grappling discussion at all on this forum.
"AJJ," when it's "founder" can't even hold his own in a sport match, let alone at something more realistic like a vale tudo match, will most likely not survive and never reach what BJJ has become because smart people see past the BS.
Im seeing BJJ "specialists" get destroyed by american wrestlers who know what an armbar is, the fact is that BJJ was so dominant because lets be real, Americans didn't knew what it was or how to counter them.
Now that everyone knows BJJ, you can't simply win on BJJ, you need to train wrestling and striking, at least to be able to defend against them.