Gedan Barai

Note: gedan barai, downward sweep, is the bread and butter technique of the taikyoku. The term is a corruption into Japanese of the Spanish/Portugese word for broom as apparently, before the Iberians arrived, nobody in Japan had seen a broom, letting the wind blow through their shoji screens instead.
The picture below shows the setup for the technique. As in all setup, two hands are positioned.