Assuming hidari-ai-hanmi.  Tsuki comes in and with left tegatana (yes, outside hand) block at the elbow of uke as you slide out towards your 10 o’clock (you are beside uke now).  At the same time, from under the tsuki arm your right tegatana makes contact with uke’s inner elbow and you draw a large, off-axis circle like slicing an attacker with a bokutou.  This circular cut looks like a cut made from wakigamae, slicing overhead and then on the down slice it cuts off the legs of uke in one motion.  By the time your ‘cut’ reaches uke’s legs, he should already be on the way down to the mats in the opposite direction he was attacking from, spun back by your slice.

When I was practicing with Andrew Barron tonight, he suggested that instead of *blocking* with the left hand, instead cut down with it to send uke down and use his energy as he recovers to throw him.  It looked good for a while, but I was always tempted to crash into nage’s legs like the start of an MMA take-down.  Sometimes teachers say the uke has no motivation to spring up again.  So, we tried both and I felt more comfortable keeping the momentum of the attack and waza in the same plane: forward and reverse.

Also, when doing the slicing motion stay close to the uke because you must transfer energy to his whole body, not just flail his arm backwards.

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