As I have said a couple of times:
Ball comes to foot/leg = legal.
Leg/foot goes to ball = illegal.
To me that means a foot/leg can be in contact with the floor or in the air and you could/couldn't have a violation.
To say just because a leg is in the air it's a kick or just because it's on the floor it isn't is too simplistic.
The rule says an intentional act to contact the ball...they really need to remove the word strike...sticking a leg into the passing lane and having a delay and the ball go to that leg is stretching the rule if you call a kick.
Any baseball fan remembers Reggie Jackson sticking a thigh out to interfere with a throw against the Dodgers in the World Series...perhaps MTD was the umpire in that game.
