  The large top quark mass suggests that the top plays a pivotal role in
Electroweak symmetry-breaking dynamics and, as a result, may have modified
couplings to Electroweak bosons. Hadron colliders can provide measurements of
these couplings at the ~10% level, and one of the early expected triumphs of
the International Linear Collider is to reduce these uncertainties to the per
cent level. In this article, we propose the first direct measurement of the
Standard Model W-t-b coupling at the ILC, from measurements of t tbar-like
signals below the t tbar production threshold. We estimate that the ILC with
100 fb^{-1} can measure a combination of the coupling and top width to high
precision, and when combined with a direct measurement of the top width from
the above-threshold scan, results in a model-independent measurement of the
W-t-b interaction of the order of ~ 3%.
