Yoko-otoshi

Both sides grapple in right natural posture. Tori moves to the left side with his left foot, then his right foot, while guiding uke to his right side. Uke responds to tori’s pulling action by moving to his right side with the right foot, and then the left foot. Tori moves uke to his right side in the manner described above, while gradually increasing the momentum, and at the moment uke steps with his left foot, tori widens his step slightly as he steps to the left side. He lowers his waist slightly, lifts up with the right hand, pulls up with the left hand, and lifts uke to his right side while breaking his balance. Uke’s left foot lifts off the mat and his body weight falls heavily toward the outside of his right foot.

Maintaining firmness in this posture, tori slides his left leg to the outside of uke’s right leg, and drops his body to the left side, while lifting and pulling further with the right hand and pulling down with the left hand in a circular shape. At the same time, he throws uke towards his right side, so that he is thrown in a large rotation around the fulcrum of his right foot.

The concept of this technique is different from that of sono ichi. The idea is to drop down with the left leg separate from uke’s body, to lift and break his balance, and throw him in a large rotating movement, instead of restricting the movement of uke’s right leg with the left leg.

Both sides grapple in natural posture and move to the side, but tori gradually takes a wider step, and shifts further to the right side than uke. Then tori breaks his balance towards the side. This is the key point in the body control.

Tori does not hook and restrict uke’s leg with the left leg when he drops down, like in sono ichi (defensive posture). He drops down with his left leg separated from uke’s right leg, and throws uke down with the consecutive actions of lifting up with both hands, and then pulling down. Uke will be thrown to the right side in a large rotating motion.

Similar to the defensive posture technique in sono ichi, tori can also hook uke’s right leg with the left leg and restrict its movement while dropping down.