第五教 · Dai Gokyo

Yoko Guruma 横車

Side Wheel

Yoko Guruma (Side Wheel), sumi-e ink drawing of the judo throw
The throw
Rolling over the fallen barrel: the everyday analogy for Yoko Guruma
Rolling over the fallen barrel

Mechanic

When uke is bent forward over tori, tori throws a leg through, drops onto their own side, and uke's forward momentum carries them wheeling in a big circular arc over tori's fallen body, landing on their back beyond it. Tori's body on the ground is the axle of the wheel.

Analogy

Stumbling forward, you run into a big barrel lying on its side right at your knees. It rolls as you hit it, your hips ride up over the curve, and you wheel through one full arc over the top, landing flat on your back on the far side.

Why it maps

The lying barrel is tori's dropped body: a round axle on the ground that catches a forward-committed mass and turns its momentum into one big circular throw over the pivot.