Yakult Okugawa Introduction of home practice such as defeating paper cups New Corona April 22 16:24

For children who spend more time at home because of the new coronavirus, professional baseball player Yakult made a video introducing the practice practice that pitcher Kyunobu Okugawa, the first-ranked rookie, can do in his house. It is published on the video site of.

This video will be distributed sequentially from this month on 11th of this month on the internet video site, YouTube's official team channel, produced by the team, so that children can go out and practice while playing at home. It was.

Okukawa pitcher and team mascot Tsuburo Kuro introduced four types of practice. Among them, in the practice using paper cups, 21 paper cups piled up in a pyramid shape were aimed at 5 paper cups. We threw and competed for how many we could beat.

Okugawa beat 19 by saying that the seam of the paper cup was likened to the seam of the ball, put a finger on it, and if you throw it in the correct form, it would fly straight.

Also, when practicing with a menco, hitting it from directly above raises the position of the elbow, and you can cultivate the feeling of shaking your arm.

Other than that, there is a practice using a paper gun and a spinning top, and four videos in total have been played about 200,000 times within 10 days from the first delivery.

In the video, Pitcher Okugawa sent a message to the children, "It may be difficult to exercise outside, but please watch this video and practice happily at home."