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This variation is generally considered destructive.

 

The right side kick / heel stomp maneuver of Scraping Hoof is varied by pumping (cocking / snapping) the side kick maneuver back toward its point of origin prior to converting the kick into a stomp. So, instead of making a 90-degree drop from the furthest point of the kick, the stomping maneuver never drops directly downward and therefore never executes a complete shin scrape vertically along the potential opponent's right shin - thus eliminating (or at least minimizing) a maneuver / strike from the form.

 

Rationale For

Generally, there is no rationale for pumping the foot after the side kick. Rather, this situation usually arises because of muscle memory from typical kick execution. Practitioners are normally taught, and generally practice, that kicks are retracted back to body after execution. Due to this repetition of execution, it becomes normal and natural for the practitioner to retract the kicking foot; while leaving the foot out to the furthest point of execution becomes strange and/or unnatural feeling. This habit can transfer itself to this maneuver without the practitioner realizing or recognizing that it is occurring. Because of this, vigilance should be taken to become self-aware of this habit and to eliminate it were warranted.

 

Rationale Against

The pumping of the side kick breaks the economy of motion principle and demonstrates that either the practitioner does not understand this principle, they are choosing to ignore it or they are not aware they are doing it - any of which is not complementary to the practitioner, from an observer's perspective.