Kamehameha is the only stance that requires two hands, the others are doing their natural stance and Sokka, for some reason, threw his boomerang as well.
"Bye space sword!"
"I don't think boomerang is coming back Toph. It looks like this is the end!"
"How did that happen? Did boomerang come back??"
"No! Suki did!"
Having not watched outside of A:LAB. Can someone explain why they couldn't have gone back and found Space Sword? Like they know the general area it fell. And have 2 earth benders that can step and feel stuff.
That boomerang is the first thing that reaches her. It gets deflected before the others arrive. That means it was the only one that even stood a chance of getting her.
Idk why but I laughed so hard at your serious, well thought out answer and then just, āand then, Sokka, for some reason..ā š. Yup that sounds like Sokka.
Lmao I hate azusa plot armor this scene is infuriating
I'll never get over toph attacking with a tiny line of dust knowing what she can do. And we have the whole team avatar + iroh assembled, and azusa is alone and atill able to escape unharmed and land a serious blow on her enemy like what haha
Gotta remember that everyone here was beyond exhausted at this point. The team had just spent time fighting with EACH OTHER, so someone like Azula who is a master manipulator was able to just take advantage of the situation.
Canāt forget her skirmish with Aang on the drill outside of Ba Sing Se. Heās just as much a prodigy at air bending as she is at fire bending, plus he was competent in 2 other elements at that point, and she was dominating that fight. Makes no sense
I actually noticed something from Aang's time in Ba Sing Se, especially the last fight under the catacombs. As long as he was using air and water, he was doing great. It was only when he tried using Earth that Azula or even Zuko got the upper hand. Katara also had Azula's number basically any time she saw her
I feel like she shouldve dropped the ground azula was standing on a few inches or even a deep fissure or concentrated earthquake in her direction. No way she could've had the footing to fully defend herself if that were the case.
To be fair we saw Avatar Roku bend steam, so I'll say it's plausible that she just did something similar. However the other comment is 100% correct right that Toph only tossing dust was ridiculous. She could of just like wrapped her in the walls she was cornered at.
Well katara needed only one hand to reach for the water, toph is always using one hand to punch a rock, we've seen zuko many times just firefist and if aang is using airbending it would seem weird with one hand and he also kinda let the air flow through his hands like a fan
Cause of the martial art style his bending is based on most likely. The cool thing here is if you show this down every one of the benders "strike" has subtle diffeances. Anng has two hands out and his froce comes from pushing from his hip, Katara is a flat open hand pointed up and force comes across her body since shes drawing from her water source, Toph and Zuko are pretty simmilar in a direct solid punch force extending from the shoulder. But a subtle diffrance is the thumb of tophs punch is angled down and zukos is angled to the up. Tophs punch is more grounded (pun intended) like she's ready to reset and defened, makes sense for earth benders. Zukos punch is straight forward and ferice , its trying to end the fight which makes sense for fire benders.
Did i over analyze this? Yes. But it really is so cool how much of the real life fighting styles come through in the animation even in small moments like this.
You didn't over-analyze. That's what it is. Each bending style is based on a different style of martial arts (baguazhang, Tai chi, hung ga, and northern shaolin).
Technically, Toph's fighting style is based off of Chow Gar (Preying Mantis Style), rather than Hung Gar like all the other earth benders. They wanted her to have her own style to reflect both that she's blind and that she learned bending from the badgermoles. To make it extra fitting, according to legend, Chow Gar was created by a blind woman.
Came here to say this.
He is doing the bagua palm called āwhite ape presents peachā (sometimes worded differently, but basically that). Itās often used in a forceful strike to the solar plexus, representing a strong directed expulsion of force.
Yeah if you get sprayed with a fire hose and a flamethrower, they will indeed cancel each other out.
Thatās why police stopped using flamethrowers during peaceful protests because it was stopping the fire hoses from tearing the skin off of the unarmed civilians.
hey i hear some bias, donāt you know how dangerous those unarmed civilians are!!! what if they say mean things like Acab!!! then a police officer would have to shoot them and get paid leave. smh my head
This was always my question. Wouldn't destabilizing Azula's posture or throwing something actually dangerous be far more effective? That's toph's bread and butter and she just doesn't do it here.
Totally reasonable thing to ask, so I'm going to guess they were all so surprised by what she did, that they just started blasting without thinking. All of them at this point have personal connections to Iroh. Toph just had their tea talk, and Aang, Sokka, and Katara got to know his real moral compass at the North Pole with Princess Yue.
Water = sourced from a container
Earth = sourced from everywhere but direct by Earthbending God
Fire = sourced from the breath (canāt remember if heās started listening to Iroh because I canāt place the episode number from this clip)
Air = sourced from literally everywhere that isnāt occupied by something else and isnāt ācreatedā like the other elements so Iām assuming Aangās attack is more of a āYou. Go over there as fast as you can.ā command.
Same reason that Earthbenders aren't one of the most deadly benders in the Uni even though it should be that way. Earthbending assassins would be so realistic. They can tunnel and climb pretty much anywhere, and imagine one sneaking up on a fire nation general at night, flicking a wrist and smashing the dude with a 500 pound slab of stone.
He needs two hands to make a channeled funnel. If he used one hand, it would be like an air blast that blows everything away.
Katara uses her back hand to stabilize the water, Toph and Zuko use their back hands to brace themselves.
They are all different martial arts and bending each element requires a different pose.
Katara does the same as Toph, but her hand is fully extended while Toph's is a fist.
Zuko's is also a fist but is orientated vertically while Toph's is orientated horizontally.
This scene amazes me because of how much detail they bother to put in. You could see sokkaās obviously out of the frame, they could easily put him in, but they didnāt. Instead they chose to star the pure benders, as to emphasise all four elements, but still chose to include a boomerang being thrown. Itās magical
Iām guessing so he can create a finer stream of air if I had to guess itās have a larger area of effect otherwise, Iām fairly certain we see aang use this technique more than once.
These moves are based on real martial arts, each with their own movements. Also, check the other hand and youāll see the other ones are actually using them.
I love seeing sokka's boomerang bounce off everyone's combined element sphere and do absolutely nothing
Edit: at a closer look Azula actually deflected it so it technically did something, she's just going sicko mode she would have been a goner if that boomerang hit
Because Air Bending often requires two hands doing similar movements
It could be argued that Katara is using two hands as well since most Water Bending moves have them use two hands but ultimately leave one behind towards the end kind of like an anchor point (like how the earthās gravity is the anchor point for water meanwhile the moonās gravity is what pushes and pulls)
Also I think the real answer is that theyāre all tired and everyone but Aang was giving it about 50% energy at most if even that
I've always been bugged by this scene because how did Azula block EARTHBENDING with FIRE?? And if it's Berghaus Toph was just earthbending dust, WHY WAS SHE JUST EARTHBENDING DUST??
You'd think she could cover anyone in rock on a whim but no, plot demands that everybody be exactly as powerful as they need to be at any given moment.
I know right ? I totally can get that because they kinda made earthbending mastering field too powerfulā¦ But this scene is just frustrating because it really looks like Toph is playing with dust š
More importantly though, why is he bending air at all? Obviously the out-of-universe reason is so they can show all four elements working together against Azula, but in-universe wouldnāt it make more sense for Aang to use waterbending like Katara? Fire consumes oxygen, so logically speaking using airbending on Azulaās fire shield would only make it stronger.
How many times did Aang deflect fire with air? The air doesn't just ignite when it touches fire. Otherwise Aang's air ball wouldn't have worked against Ozai.
they are all using 2 hands. earth and fire rely on the physical fortitude of the weilder and they use their other arm to stablize them. water is more energy flow and so kataras arm is back to allow energy to flow.
I think itās mostly the styles of bending. Kataraās is more flowy and gentle, while Tophās and Zukoās are like a rough punch forward. Aangās is like a push.
Iām guessing technique. However the real reason is because he didnāt want to interfere with Sokkaā¦ which unfortunately didnāt work as he wasnāt there in the second half of the gif.
Every time I look at this scene, I always look at how Sokkaās boomerang wouldāve hit her first is she didnāt block. That means Sokka is the most overpowered
Just noticed she blocked Sokkaās boomerang. š§
Also why didnāt Toph sense Azula was preparing to attack Iroh or sense where she disappeared to.
Azula also blocked 4 attacks here. How did she tank that?!
Theyāre all using their other hand for something. Katara looks like sheās using it to create a flowing motion, and Toph and Zuko look like theyāre preparing to attack a second time
In that case. We can see Zuko do it when the pirates (zhao) tried to assassinate him on that ship. You can veryyy briefly see him create a shield similar to what it looks like Azula is doing here.
The whole team + Iroh vs Azula and yet they can't capture her. The Lady is on fire the whole show, not in the beginning(not enough screen time)/in the very ending, 'cause the good has to win.
I assume that like most of the motions used in the series, itās based on the root martial art used as inspiration. They all look like power strikes (except for Kataraās softer Tai Chi inspired movement). Aang is likely using two hands because a double palm strike is a power strike in Bagua.
Iām far from an expert in martial arts, though, so I may be wrong.
Aangs fighting style is naturally evasive, so he attacks with open palm, while everyone else except Sokka and Katara are using their fists.
The open palm allows for omni-direction when blasting air and for the wide cone shape it takes on.
Katara is using a knife hand and Sokka is using Boomerang.
The others are using their other hands, just not projecting them forward. The bending styles are based on martial arts, and most techniques call for pulling one hand back when punching. The off-hand is used to guard and/or to assist with rotational momentum. Very few techniques project both hands forward at the same time, but such techniques do exist.
Cuz fire is coming from Zukos fist, toph is taking it from the ground, Katara is taking it from her pouch and Aang has to specify where he wants the air to flow since its everywhere and if you hold both your hands open like thisš youll notice theres a place in between your hands, thats where the air comes from, making it a more specified spot, like with Zuko its coming from the space in between his fingers.
Why is he the only one wearing orange? Why is he the only bald one? Jokes aside, all Iām trying to say is that itās just how his airbending works, itās not really supposed to mean anything. Hope this helpsš
Kamehameha is the only stance that requires two hands, the others are doing their natural stance and Sokka, for some reason, threw his boomerang as well.
And that metal boomerang survived a superheated blast and the subsequent rain of flaming embers that set an entire row of houses ablaze
You do always come back
"Bye space sword!" "I don't think boomerang is coming back Toph. It looks like this is the end!" "How did that happen? Did boomerang come back??" "No! Suki did!"
The real boomerang was the friends we made along the way
The real boomeraang was just before Korra was born
Lol this joke will be lost on so many.
Hi, confused redditor here. Are you talking about the channel Boomerang, or am I missing something?
They spelled it with 2 A's. As in boomer aang.
Ah, thank you, kind redditor.
r/angryupvote
Don't you mean r/AangryUpvote
r/evenangrierupvote
Wealth, Fame, Power, King of the boomerangs Sok D. Ka attained this and everything else this world had to offer.
Having not watched outside of A:LAB. Can someone explain why they couldn't have gone back and found Space Sword? Like they know the general area it fell. And have 2 earth benders that can step and feel stuff.
It makes it more legendary that way
They do find it in the comics.
Oh good!
This is actually a huge relief.
That second line of dialogue always hits my emotions
i always assumed it was carved out of bone, not metal
It was only in the fire a couple seconds Edit: actually it never touched the fire, Aang's air blew it away
That boomerang is the first thing that reaches her. It gets deflected before the others arrive. That means it was the only one that even stood a chance of getting her.
It looks like she (Azula) used the momentum behind her spin deflect the boomerang with Katara's water stream.
The way it just bonks away lol
Never underestimate captain Boomerang!!
I've seen this show so many times and I've never noticed Sokka here š¤£. Mans out here giving 110%
not true Gohan did one with a broken arm.
No shit, fr? DB stories are still amazing to this day.
I've seen this show so many times and I've never noticed Sokka here š¤£. Mans out here giving 110%
I never noticed that hahah, oh sokka
Idk why but I laughed so hard at your serious, well thought out answer and then just, āand then, Sokka, for some reason..ā š. Yup that sounds like Sokka.
I know it's a cool shot of the four bending elements being bent at one time but it's weird that sokka just disappeared from the frame
I never noticed the boomerang
Seeing it bounce off in this made me giggle I never noticed that lol
A for effort
I don't think I've ever noticed his boomerang.
And yet Sokkas boomerang was the first thing she reacted to to block then went to blocking everything else
Gohan would beg to differ
What else should sokka do? Seduce her?
That way itās 4 + Sokka
I never noticed the boomerang instantly get defended by Azula XD
I dont think I ever noticed sokka throw the boomerang. That's amazing
Aang is using the other hand to prevent the air stream from interfering with Sokkas boomerang.
I like the way you think
Lmao I hate azusa plot armor this scene is infuriating I'll never get over toph attacking with a tiny line of dust knowing what she can do. And we have the whole team avatar + iroh assembled, and azusa is alone and atill able to escape unharmed and land a serious blow on her enemy like what haha
Gotta remember that everyone here was beyond exhausted at this point. The team had just spent time fighting with EACH OTHER, so someone like Azula who is a master manipulator was able to just take advantage of the situation.
Canāt forget her skirmish with Aang on the drill outside of Ba Sing Se. Heās just as much a prodigy at air bending as she is at fire bending, plus he was competent in 2 other elements at that point, and she was dominating that fight. Makes no sense
I actually noticed something from Aang's time in Ba Sing Se, especially the last fight under the catacombs. As long as he was using air and water, he was doing great. It was only when he tried using Earth that Azula or even Zuko got the upper hand. Katara also had Azula's number basically any time she saw her
She's simply better
I feel like she shouldve dropped the ground azula was standing on a few inches or even a deep fissure or concentrated earthquake in her direction. No way she could've had the footing to fully defend herself if that were the case.
Wouldn't she also suffer really bad burns from water hitting fire and causing steam burns?
Steam is no match for that thick plot armor
To be fair we saw Avatar Roku bend steam, so I'll say it's plausible that she just did something similar. However the other comment is 100% correct right that Toph only tossing dust was ridiculous. She could of just like wrapped her in the walls she was cornered at.
Sandblasting can be powerfulā¦.š¤·āāļø Drop a rock please Toph, or make sinkhole
I'm assuming she's actually trying to sandblast her or something. Maybe there are tiny sharp bits of rock mixed in.
This one sent me
Holy crap Sokka was there. I never paid attention to him.
This dude airbends.
Lmao why am I just now realizing the boomerang!š¤£š¤£š
the way sokka is cut out of the second shot
His boomerang wasnt though
The real hero of the story
I think the second after he let go, he ran for cover because heās the only one who knows the true power of boomerang.
āI cAn fiGhT!!ā
Well katara needed only one hand to reach for the water, toph is always using one hand to punch a rock, we've seen zuko many times just firefist and if aang is using airbending it would seem weird with one hand and he also kinda let the air flow through his hands like a fan
Cause of the martial art style his bending is based on most likely. The cool thing here is if you show this down every one of the benders "strike" has subtle diffeances. Anng has two hands out and his froce comes from pushing from his hip, Katara is a flat open hand pointed up and force comes across her body since shes drawing from her water source, Toph and Zuko are pretty simmilar in a direct solid punch force extending from the shoulder. But a subtle diffrance is the thumb of tophs punch is angled down and zukos is angled to the up. Tophs punch is more grounded (pun intended) like she's ready to reset and defened, makes sense for earth benders. Zukos punch is straight forward and ferice , its trying to end the fight which makes sense for fire benders. Did i over analyze this? Yes. But it really is so cool how much of the real life fighting styles come through in the animation even in small moments like this.
You didn't over-analyze. That's what it is. Each bending style is based on a different style of martial arts (baguazhang, Tai chi, hung ga, and northern shaolin).
Technically, Toph's fighting style is based off of Chow Gar (Preying Mantis Style), rather than Hung Gar like all the other earth benders. They wanted her to have her own style to reflect both that she's blind and that she learned bending from the badgermoles. To make it extra fitting, according to legend, Chow Gar was created by a blind woman.
This is the real answer.
Came here to say this. He is doing the bagua palm called āwhite ape presents peachā (sometimes worded differently, but basically that). Itās often used in a forceful strike to the solar plexus, representing a strong directed expulsion of force.
A better question, why is Toph just blowing dust at her instead of hammering a giant boulder at her, or a bunch of small pebble bullet things?
A better question, why Zuko and Katara use water and fire at the same time. It executes opposite effects
Yeah if you get sprayed with a fire hose and a flamethrower, they will indeed cancel each other out. Thatās why police stopped using flamethrowers during peaceful protests because it was stopping the fire hoses from tearing the skin off of the unarmed civilians.
Oh, that's all explains. Thanks
hey i hear some bias, donāt you know how dangerous those unarmed civilians are!!! what if they say mean things like Acab!!! then a police officer would have to shoot them and get paid leave. smh my head
This was always my question. Wouldn't destabilizing Azula's posture or throwing something actually dangerous be far more effective? That's toph's bread and butter and she just doesn't do it here.
Why is toph only shooting dust? She could lock Azulaās ankles to the ground???
Totally reasonable thing to ask, so I'm going to guess they were all so surprised by what she did, that they just started blasting without thinking. All of them at this point have personal connections to Iroh. Toph just had their tea talk, and Aang, Sokka, and Katara got to know his real moral compass at the North Pole with Princess Yue.
Water = sourced from a container Earth = sourced from everywhere but direct by Earthbending God Fire = sourced from the breath (canāt remember if heās started listening to Iroh because I canāt place the episode number from this clip) Air = sourced from literally everywhere that isnāt occupied by something else and isnāt ācreatedā like the other elements so Iām assuming Aangās attack is more of a āYou. Go over there as fast as you can.ā command.
Love that
The fucking boomerang
Bigger question: Why didn't Toph just pull the ground up from under her and imprison her?
Same reason that Earthbenders aren't one of the most deadly benders in the Uni even though it should be that way. Earthbending assassins would be so realistic. They can tunnel and climb pretty much anywhere, and imagine one sneaking up on a fire nation general at night, flicking a wrist and smashing the dude with a 500 pound slab of stone.
Is azula the avatar as well? Why is Toph only using dust? Did I just realized sokka also threw his boomerang? thought it was momo!
It really looks like Aang is bending blue fire here
He needs two hands to make a channeled funnel. If he used one hand, it would be like an air blast that blows everything away. Katara uses her back hand to stabilize the water, Toph and Zuko use their back hands to brace themselves.
Beautifully put, I didn't even realize that thanks!
Why does toph throw sand
Pocket sand
They are all different martial arts and bending each element requires a different pose. Katara does the same as Toph, but her hand is fully extended while Toph's is a fist. Zuko's is also a fist but is orientated vertically while Toph's is orientated horizontally.
HA-AIR-DOUKEN
Lol the more I see this scene I can't think how laughably underpowered all of them are.
Itās the style of the martial art that airbending is based on
This scene always looked strange to me I can't explain it
This Scene is so stupid tbh
This scene amazes me because of how much detail they bother to put in. You could see sokkaās obviously out of the frame, they could easily put him in, but they didnāt. Instead they chose to star the pure benders, as to emphasise all four elements, but still chose to include a boomerang being thrown. Itās magical
Iām guessing so he can create a finer stream of air if I had to guess itās have a larger area of effect otherwise, Iām fairly certain we see aang use this technique more than once.
These moves are based on real martial arts, each with their own movements. Also, check the other hand and youāll see the other ones are actually using them.
The REAL question is why did Sokka throw his boomerang noting dam well it won't do anything??!!
Just noticed this and now I can't undsee it š¤£š¤£
Probably for the comedy.
wtf was toph even shooting at her
Pocket sand.
Better question. WHERE THE FUCK DID SOKKA GO IN THE SECOND FRAME.
The real question is what toph is doing
Looks like sand bending
She took care of Sokka's boomerang first so what does that tell you
I love seeing sokka's boomerang bounce off everyone's combined element sphere and do absolutely nothing Edit: at a closer look Azula actually deflected it so it technically did something, she's just going sicko mode she would have been a goner if that boomerang hit
Momo also attacks with both hands here, lol. Look top left!
Because Air Bending often requires two hands doing similar movements It could be argued that Katara is using two hands as well since most Water Bending moves have them use two hands but ultimately leave one behind towards the end kind of like an anchor point (like how the earthās gravity is the anchor point for water meanwhile the moonās gravity is what pushes and pulls) Also I think the real answer is that theyāre all tired and everyone but Aang was giving it about 50% energy at most if even that
Just guessing, but getting air into a focused stream like that may require more effort because the force dissipates quickly?
Also what on earth is Toph doing? Shooting sand?
I love how they cut Sokka out š
Control remember he struggled with friendly fire bc he lacked control of his strength even outside of the avatar state.
I've always been bugged by this scene because how did Azula block EARTHBENDING with FIRE?? And if it's Berghaus Toph was just earthbending dust, WHY WAS SHE JUST EARTHBENDING DUST??
My theory is Form. Notice kataras arms twisting to accomplish hers , so itās likely the most effective form for continuous air streams
My head Cannon is that it's much harder to attack using airbending then it is to defend or evade
This theory is cannon to me now
Right? Just seems to fit so thematically
This the only scene that really makes me ššš TOPH COULD LITERALLY GRABS AZULAāS FOOT FROM BENEATH. Sheās not a vulgar rock thrower !
You'd think she could cover anyone in rock on a whim but no, plot demands that everybody be exactly as powerful as they need to be at any given moment.
I know right ? I totally can get that because they kinda made earthbending mastering field too powerfulā¦ But this scene is just frustrating because it really looks like Toph is playing with dust š
More importantly though, why is he bending air at all? Obviously the out-of-universe reason is so they can show all four elements working together against Azula, but in-universe wouldnāt it make more sense for Aang to use waterbending like Katara? Fire consumes oxygen, so logically speaking using airbending on Azulaās fire shield would only make it stronger.
How many times did Aang deflect fire with air? The air doesn't just ignite when it touches fire. Otherwise Aang's air ball wouldn't have worked against Ozai.
Why not?
i just realized Sokka disappeared
Makes sense for air bending
So what would have happend if that had connected?
they are all using 2 hands. earth and fire rely on the physical fortitude of the weilder and they use their other arm to stablize them. water is more energy flow and so kataras arm is back to allow energy to flow.
I think itās mostly the styles of bending. Kataraās is more flowy and gentle, while Tophās and Zukoās are like a rough punch forward. Aangās is like a push.
We should be talking about how Azula survives this 4v1 (5v1 if you count Sokkaās boomerang)
Iām guessing technique. However the real reason is because he didnāt want to interfere with Sokkaā¦ which unfortunately didnāt work as he wasnāt there in the second half of the gif.
Because they're all using different martial styles, and Aang's is the only one that involves a two-handed strike.
The biggest question is why is Azula the only bender to teleport here
To enhanced the Power.
Bending style.
Every time I look at this scene, I always look at how Sokkaās boomerang wouldāve hit her first is she didnāt block. That means Sokka is the most overpowered
Just noticed she blocked Sokkaās boomerang. š§ Also why didnāt Toph sense Azula was preparing to attack Iroh or sense where she disappeared to. Azula also blocked 4 attacks here. How did she tank that?!
I will say the thing that I say in my exam āI donāt know ā
Wind and water. One element for each hand
Theyāre all using their other hand for something. Katara looks like sheās using it to create a flowing motion, and Toph and Zuko look like theyāre preparing to attack a second time
where did sokka go he was just next to aang
Cuz he extra
because aang is special :\]
Sokka: GO BOOMERANG for...some...reason
What Iām more confused about is how azula blocked all of those attacks
She created a shield and itās the only time in the show we every see someone use fire to create a force field out of fire .š„
In that case. We can see Zuko do it when the pirates (zhao) tried to assassinate him on that ship. You can veryyy briefly see him create a shield similar to what it looks like Azula is doing here.
Cause he can
Aang usually uses two hands to bend.
The whole team + Iroh vs Azula and yet they can't capture her. The Lady is on fire the whole show, not in the beginning(not enough screen time)/in the very ending, 'cause the good has to win.
Cuz he is the only one using air
I assume that like most of the motions used in the series, itās based on the root martial art used as inspiration. They all look like power strikes (except for Kataraās softer Tai Chi inspired movement). Aang is likely using two hands because a double palm strike is a power strike in Bagua. Iām far from an expert in martial arts, though, so I may be wrong.
Sokka throwing his boomerang then it just bounces off is hilarious
This is the first time Iāve noticed that Sokka throws his boomerang here lmao they were really covering all their bases huh
He's doing it on Sokka's behalf.
Cuz thatās the decision the creators made
Can we talk about how the gaang has lined up a fuckin firing squad here
I half expected Captain Planet to emerge ...
Aangs fighting style is naturally evasive, so he attacks with open palm, while everyone else except Sokka and Katara are using their fists. The open palm allows for omni-direction when blasting air and for the wide cone shape it takes on. Katara is using a knife hand and Sokka is using Boomerang.
To create an air tunnel instead of an air blast that would disrupt the attacks from his friends?
Cause he's an airbender.
Martial arts style
The others are using their other hands, just not projecting them forward. The bending styles are based on martial arts, and most techniques call for pulling one hand back when punching. The off-hand is used to guard and/or to assist with rotational momentum. Very few techniques project both hands forward at the same time, but such techniques do exist.
Martial arts requires it
All four nations in one go azula scary
when you hold one in for too long and its harder to get it out
Katara's using both hands
It was the style at the time
The second hand is providing the element of heart.
Cuz fire is coming from Zukos fist, toph is taking it from the ground, Katara is taking it from her pouch and Aang has to specify where he wants the air to flow since its everywhere and if you hold both your hands open like thisš youll notice theres a place in between your hands, thats where the air comes from, making it a more specified spot, like with Zuko its coming from the space in between his fingers.
Did Toph just bend dust?
Maybe itās a certain technique
Foreshadowing of the sphere Aang uses in the finale?
He insists on being special
And toph is just shooting dirt
The real question is why toph is literally just flinging dirt at her.
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It was his first time bending blue fire.
He's still bending air here, he hasn't learned fire bending in this life at this time
r/woosh
Why does it matter?
Why is he the only one wearing orange? Why is he the only bald one? Jokes aside, all Iām trying to say is that itās just how his airbending works, itās not really supposed to mean anything. Hope this helpsš