{"id":12559,"date":"2014-02-09T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:08:55","slug":"leg-kick-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/leg-kick-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Leg kick swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12560\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/136_0098-Lee-Yong-Kyu-\uc774\uc6a9\uaddc-kia-tigers-Doosan-Bears-Choi-Jae-Hoon-\ucd5c\uc7ac\ud6c8.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12560\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/136_0098-Lee-Yong-Kyu-\uc774\uc6a9\uaddc-kia-tigers-Doosan-Bears-Choi-Jae-Hoon-\ucd5c\uc7ac\ud6c8.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Yong-Kyu \uc774\uc6a9\uaddc kia tigers Doosan Bears Choi Jae-Hoon \ucd5c\uc7ac\ud6c8\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Yong-Kyu (\uc774\uc6a9\uaddc) of the Kia Tigers with Choi Jae-Hoon (\ucd5c\uc7ac\ud6c8) of the  Doosan Bears catching<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sadaharu Oh may have been the first professional baseball player to implement a leg kick into his swing. It is a rare sight in MLB these days. Maybe Hunter Pence does one? Any others? In any event, the leg kick is fairly common to see in Korean and Japanese professional leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadaharu Oh may have been the first professional baseball player to implement a leg kick into his swing. It is a rare sight in MLB these days. Maybe Hunter Pence does one? Any others? In any event, the leg kick is fairly common to see in Korean and Japanese professional leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[436],"tags":[82,454,419,429,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32688,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions\/32688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}