what is the sub-bending of air?

[waterchild38]

I dont think there is a sub for air bending, but just the asbility to alter the other benders main abilities:
Air vs Fire: can redirect or extiguish
Air vs Water: could make a water funnel by tornado then sending onto a body of water, redirecting course
Air vs Earth: enough air pressure would be able to change the path of the stone, would be able to break if enough air were to be pushed onto one specific point

thats just my opinion

[kudugu]

waterchild38 said:

I dont think there is a sub for air bending, but just the asbility to alter the other benders main abilities:
Air vs Fire: can redirect or extiguish
Air vs Water: could make a water funnel by tornado then sending onto a body of water, redirecting course
Air vs Earth: enough air pressure would be able to change the path of the stone, would be able to break if enough air were to be pushed onto one specific point

thats just my opinion

That wouldn't be something special for air at all, since you can use almost any element to shield yourself agaginst the other ones, as we have seen in the show.

[chenny257]

yeah.. but there is one though... firebenders cant reflect/redirect lightning. only zuko and iroh can. did u see ozai try to stop his own lighting? he had no idea his son had become so strong!
but i am still going with sound, although it sounds weird u think about it, because most people don't associate sound as being from air, and keeping in mind that avatar is still a show directed at kids so yeah... get my point?

[Metal-Bender X7]

rokuthegreat said:

sound, on my opinion. to influence the sound waves.

Oo, I like that xD

That's a neat idea, and I think it makes sense too.
Air benders might sound bend!

[voodoo]

how about, the ultimate power of the airbenders is Control of the weather ?

[kudugu]

voodoo said:

how about, the ultimate power of the airbenders is Control of the weather ?

Well, a perfect "weatherbender" would actually have to be able to bend air, water and lightning, so "weatherbending" would either be the effect of several different benders working together OR the doing of the avatar.

[voodoo]

let's say they can catch some clouds in a airball, and for example, 2 airbenders can direct 2 clouds to each other, the crash between the 2 clouds producing electricity?
or an airbender can bend the cloud (in a airball, or whatever) higher, so the cloud will reach lower temperatures making it become water?

[kudugu]

voodoo said:

let's say they can catch some clouds in a airball, and for example, 2 airbenders can direct 2 clouds to each other, the crash between the 2 clouds producing electricity?
or an airbender can bend the cloud (in a airball, or whatever) higher, so the cloud will reach lower temperatures making it become water?

That's not how "weather works". And even if, it woudn't be something special to the airbenders, cause waterbenders could do it too.

[binlong]

I would say that a sub-element of air are clouds. They can bend them, and they aren't air. The same goes for smoke. Those are two sub-elements.

[dylan schreder]

personally, i find sound a bit impractical. if you can manipulate the waves of sound passing through the air what is to stop an air bender from being able to pull the extremely harmful radio waves from space through the atmosphere (which consists of air), or concentrate the microwaves which we on earth are constantly being bombarded with, cuz if you focus those, then you could quite literally cook someone from the inside out.

i think it would have something more to do with pressurization of air molecules, tightly packing them either around an object to lift it... or simply to use to throttle someone with. condensing air to a near solid-like density and harnessing that... and going along with air bender mentality, you could quite simply encase someone in a bubble of highly dense air. wrap your mind around it for a while.

[kudugu]

Radio and micro waves are kinds of electromagnetic radiation, whereas sound is a kinetic phenomenon, caused by mechanical energy and carried by air (and other media). They have nothing whatsoever in common regarding the discussed issue. Since airbenders are doing nothing but "aerokinesis", it would be absolutely reasonable to assume they could be able to bend sound, BUT NOT radio or micro waves. Btw. since microwaves are practically a "heat phenomenon", if at all they would rather be something for firebenders.

[kudugu]

binlong said:

I would say that a sub-element of air are clouds. They can bend them, and they aren't air. The same goes for smoke. Those are two sub-elements.

Clouds are water.
Airbender might be able to move them, because they are nerved with air, but clouds are clearly no "sub-element" of air!

[greenearth]

maybe sand is a sub-element for earth bending.

[Morning]

Sound is not a byproduct of air. Sound is merely vibration that your ears pick up. So no, "soundbending" or whatever would not be related to air.

[greenearth]

yeah, there's no such thing as sound bending.