Well, this is unrelated to Japanese vs Chinese martial arts, but i just want to point out something in human juggernaut's argument. You are stating that close quarters grappling like Judo, wrestling would be very effective against striking martial arts regardless of their origin, well, at least that's what i garner. The fact is that all true martial arts like Hung gar, Jujitsu, Shaolin's many styles are designed to be efficient and lethal. Meanwhile, Judo and wrestling are primarily designed as sports, they usually don't teach/allow attacks to vital organs. A shoot is very effective, would probably work on a lot of martial arts, but that's depending on the situation, if its a spar then i agree with you the grappler has the advantage, but if it was an all out life or death situation, a well placed strike to the temple, throat, soft tissue at the back of the neck could kill/severely injure the attacker. If Bruce Lee was in an all out fight with that Judo master, i think the results would have been different as a lot of his back ground has taught him the softest tissues of an human body, the weakest nerve points, the most lethal areas. But alas, we'll never know. I can't speak for all martial arts, but a lot of chinese/japanese martial arts have a lot of focus of shattering and breaking joints/bones, eye gouging, throat gouging, all things that are not seen in Judo, Wrestling. This is compounded by martial artists like Bruce Lee who has arguably the most explosive power within very short range, even if he was on the ground, if he had to i'm pretty sure he could break bones/severely damage internal organs.
I'm not saying the striking martial artist will win every time, but its a much more fair fight then you make it out to be..at least in a life or death situation.
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