Apoth. "Pushing" with their kick is what the begginers do that can't learn to snap their hip or what the experts do when they are pulling their kick so as to not hurt someone. Otherwise you visciously snap your hip into and out of your target for maximum concussive power and damage. I'm a 4th degree TKD instructor, I'm also a Muay Thai fighter so I can honestly tell you guys the differences between knee chambered round kick and the Thai round kick.
I've been doing chambered knee roundkick and kicking with the instep for 13 years, I can really pound them out. But I can get the same amount of power out of my Thai round kick. The difference is, if I hit you full out with both you will quickly see that the Thai round kick has more concussive power and does more damage even though the power is the same. This is because the attacking tool (the shin) is much more devastating a weapon then the instep. Hey I run a TKD school, I'm not going to BS here. A sharp bony shin is like a bat compared to the instep which is like... well like an instep. The shin just does more damage.
Also, I NEVER would use the instep in a street fight or in the ring UNLESS it goes to the head. I have repeatedly disabled my foot by kicking with the instep on lower targets like the leg or hitting the elbows when trying to kick to the torso, so I always try to kick to those targets with the shin to avoid injury. BUT when kicking to the head I prefer the fullout chambered knee kick with the instep. The head moves slightly with impact and takes away some of the damage to the foot, I've never even felt pain when kicking full contact to the head bone on bone with the instep unlike the full contact kicks I've done to the legs and torso with instep).
Apoth, the chambered leg kick to the head is just as powerful as the thai kick but if you do get hit with the shin to the head (which means your opponent is pretty close) it will cause more damage. But uh, both of them will knock you out so the degree of concussion you have afterwards is of little relevance... how knocked out do you need to be? heh You mentioned getting their full body behind their kick, that should be the same for chambered knee or Thai kick.
Damian Mavis
Honour TKD
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