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Step by step

The whole movement in words, so no part of it depends on watching a video. Described in the standard right-handed form.

  1. From a right-handed grip, stand roughly square with your partner, feeling their weight settle onto their right foot.
  2. Slide your left leg along the mat past the outside of their right foot, so your extended leg lies beside and beyond it.
  3. Let yourself fall onto your left side, close to their feet; there is no half measure, your body commits fully to the mat.
  4. As you drop, pull down and across with the sleeve hand towards the space beyond your own head, the lapel hand following.
  5. Your fall and pull take them sideways over your extended leg; they land on their back beyond you while you remain on your side holding the sleeve.

Receiving it

Your partner drops suddenly to their side beside your feet and your sleeve is pulled after them: their falling weight, not a lift, is what takes you. You are drawn sideways over their extended leg. Turn with it, slap with your free arm, and land on your back beyond them rather than fighting to stay upright and landing badly.

VI judo notes

The extended leg is slid along the mat past the outside of their foot, so it is placed by contact and cannot be misjudged for height. There is no half measure in the drop: commit fully onto your side and pull across towards the space beyond your own head. Know where the mat edge is before you go down.

About this technique

A side sacrifice: tori drops directly to the side, blocking uke's foot, and throws uke over the outstretched body.

Key points

  1. Slide your leg outside uke's foot as you drop to your side
  2. Pull uke's sleeve down and across as you fall
  3. Commit to the drop: a half-hearted sacrifice throws nobody

Yoko-sutemi-waza (side sacrifice techniques) · Gokyo 3rd set

In combinations, counters and transitions

None recorded yet. Nobody has written down a counter to Yoko-otoshi, or a combination it belongs to. You can suggest one.