vagabond said: " What the hell are you talking about, BJJ has a decent arsenal of standing strikes...
but compared to jjj, nowhere near as many stand-up techniques, striking and throwing and what not. on the ground though jjj has more locks rather than chokes or sumissions. I was in a jjj taining camp in 1988 and a bjj guy came in to co-instruct us, naturally he was tiny and what he taught mainly was ground stuff.... best thing I learnt actually (that I can recall) was how to get a mofo out of the turtle guard - thing was, you can really hurt your own head doing it, which I preceded to do first try... and maybe second try too, third try I hurt his head though. I've never seen a judo throw that wasn't also in jjj.... but I would have to say judo and akido are pretty damn close too.
to cut it down - bjj is a street version of jjj for the smaller guy. jjj guy went to brazil, taught some scrappy lads some moves, and these scrappy lads took their newfound knowledge and started a frozen yogurt buisness and were very successful with it, one of those little boys didn't like ice cream and preferred the sweet taste of a jujutekami (word is real but I made the spelling up) up in his crotch, so he started a buisness called frozen japanese jujutsu, but that didn't work so he changed it to gracie jiu jitsu