Gentlemen,
After reading the initial post on this thread I feel compelled to put some things into perspective. The first being that jujutsu/aikijujutsu from a classical perspective is a lethal force engagement art. This means that they were designed to be used in conjunction with edged weapon combat in a multiple opponent environment. In this environment size means very little just as it does not in modern lethal force engagements. As my friend and Army buddy Nick Saganis used to say, a hundred pound gook with an AK is as big as anybody your ever going to meet.
The time to solution in these environments virtually precludes grappling in the BJJ/UFC sense as a solution. You may be winning the engagement and lose the war as solutions that take longer than a few seconds will get you killed by someone else in that environment. Holding space also leads to real problems, when the mail is being delivered at 2,700 fps it is best not to spend any time in a force vector.
Punching and kicking also has little effect when faced with class 4 body army, ballistic goggles, kevlar helmets etc. And even if your opponent is out of ammo in his primary weapon, an 8 pound piece of steel that makes a pretty good striking tool, he usually has a knife and a sidearm. The last time I tried it a knife made passing the guard pretty easy.
Bjj is a sport art that has fighting applications in controlled one on one environments. UFC style competitions are also sport based that have fighting applications, neither are suitable for combat and neither work well against multiple opponents. Judging a system based on one practitioner outside of the prime parameters of the art, i.e. edged weapons combat, is short sighted and smacks of being self serving.
James Williams
James Willliams
Kaicho
Nami ryu