Better self defense Judo or BJJ?

I don't plan on getting in street fights; Nor do I expect to. I enjoy MMA and would like to train. Judo is quite like Sambo.

It is worth mentioning that Helio, and Carlos Gracie learned martial arts from a Judo instructor Mitsuyo Maeda ! Helio adjusted Judo to a style that would suit his slight build and created Gracie JJ.

I beleive Sambo to be the best Martial art. When you see a good Sambo fighter grab ahold of someone, they are going down! Even someone as big as Hong Man Choi 7'2 367 lbs, was down in about 20 seconds. BJJ lost that explosiveness in take downs as it cousins Judo and Sambo IMO.

I have seen so many BJJ fighters with just terrible take downs. They just shoot for the leg, and the other fighter sees it a mile away and sprawls. You are starting to see more fighters like Chuck Liddell ( half ass boxers), because MMA fighters sprawl defense has improved so much over the years. I beleive fighters are going to need Sambo or Judo holds ( throws and pull downs like Fedor) to get down these stand up fighters, to be effective more and more in the future of MMA.

 

Maybe your right. Perhaps, Fihlo's stand up is just so one dimensional and ponderous that he couldn't get in position to go for a take down. Yeah, Sonnen is a good wrestler but Fihlo didn't even really get close 90 % of the fight to do any thing.

 

No, most of the fight was Sonnen dominating in the stand up.

LMAO, are you sure you know what you are talking about? From Fihlo's WEC page it says he studied Judo from the age of "5" to "9 years old". It seems he hasnt studied Judo in 20 years, and practiced against 70 lbs kids, lol!!! He found BJJ at 9 and fell in love ever since. I may have to doubt Fihlo's Judo credentials at a professional level, considering he was an elementry school kid when he took Judo, and it has been 20 years.

"He began studying judo when he was just five on the recommendation of his pediatrician in order to curb his hyperactivity. Four years later, when he and his family moved to Copacabana, everything changed forever."

“When I was nine, I moved to Copacabana with my family,” said Filho. “There I looked for a judo school and ended up at Carlson Gracie's gym, where I started to train jiu-jitsu and fell in love.” Carlson Gracie put MMA in my heart at a young age,” he said. “If I don't fight, I don't live.”


http://www.wec.tv/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=8941

 

No, Fedor was in a clinch and went for a Sambo take down. Man Choi was so massive he kind of fell on top of Fedor. No way that was pulling guard, Fedor had 360 lbs or whatever lbs pounds fall right on top of him, that is not pulling guard.

Pulling guard is what Minotauro did to Sylvia.