Ice is actually less dense than water, which is why ice floats on top of water. It also explains why water expands in when frozen, which is why pipes burst in the winter.

Earth bending spirituality is often overlooked. It's not just about neutral Jing, but connectedness. When we see Toph in the swamp in Korra she can commune with the earth itself by touching a banyan tree which let's her see what's going on at any location of the earth. Even though she's living as a hermit she's still connected to everyone and everything important to her. This is also a nice inversion from airbending which focuses on detachment from the world, which is why their sub bending of astral projection let's them detach themselves from their bodies.

1. Raava didn't teach Wan to bend all four elements, she enabled him to, holding the energy from the bending arts so that it wouldn't kill Wan. 2. waterbending is not based on judo, it is based on Tai Chi

I feel like if air bending wasn't used by a peaceful group of people like the air nomads, we would see a lot more aggressive combat capabilities. Like creating vacuums removing air from opponents lungs and stuff like that.

That’s not how Zahir learned to fly. He was only able to fly after his lover Pli, died in combat. After her death all his ties to the world were severed and he gained the ability to fly.

Dude I could totally see you as an Airbender. Being the most versatile of all the elements, air literally being everywhere, can fly, great fighting distance, and has good offense and defense capabilities

Bumi wasn't just Aang's son. He was the king of Omashu, one of the guy he fought during his travel and his friend before the 100 year war. Aang named his son on remembering Bumi.

Please keep making avatar content! Especially a video on the white lotus! I think a you know nothing about Iro would be really inspiring too! We definitely need more examples like him in our lives.

Energy bending can theoretically be linked to all the bending styles via their sub techniques like healing, Astral projection, seismic sense and lighting bending (which is creating by manipulating yin and yang chi). I think it would be cool if eventually there was a character who became a bender by mastering their own energy and emboding the elemental princeiples rather than the usual way of just manipulating physical elements.

I feel like they are western cartoons but with alot of anime influence. Such a good show, deep and the world feels super flushed out and large

21:32 Mercury bending would be a subset of earthbending, the metal poison the red lotus used on Korra might very well be mercury. There is also a scene in the season 4 finale where Kuvira is bending liquid metal inside the mech

What i like about Earth benders is by how down to earth they generally are. This also goes into how powerful they are as benders. Toph was the daughter of a nobleman and the richest family in the world yet at the end of the series, she saw Aang and the rest of the gang as equals. At that point she was arguably the strongest Earth bender in history outside of Kioshi.

Nice video, but you made one small mistake. 19:02, you said that Bumi, Aang and Kataras oldest son said that there are 85 different types of Jing. The Bumi who said that was the King of Omashu, whom Aang and Kataras son was named after.

Air benders can control the temperature of the air around them. That's why Aang didn't need winter clothes in the artic whilst the native residents of the artic absolutely did. Also, it takes a metric butt-ton of pressure to freeze water at room temperature. Water benders can control water temperature.

I always thought later generations learned bending from the animals. It's stated a lot throughout the show that the air bison, moon, moles, and dragons were the original benders of each element.

Please do more of this! Avatar is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, and it only gets better as I get older.

The best bender hands down is Toph. Not only did she take her bending to the next evolution METAL bending. She learned it on her own. Katara had to be told about blood bending and then forced to step up in doing it. Toph, trapped in her cage used her own brain to take that next step. And to put that in context. Umi the best earth bender ever never even thought to do that to escape when the fire nation invaded.

I love your videos! Here is something I noticed that you and a lot of other people do when explaining the 4 bending styles and all of the specialized offshoot bending styles, so often you all forget to incorporate and expound upon the wisdom of Uncle Iroh himself about the very nature of the 4 elements. While teaching Zuko how to redirect lightning, Iroh draws the symbols of the 4 great nations into the sand and he explains the very nature of each element. Air is the element of freedom, Water is the element of change, Earth is the element of substance, and Fire is the element of power. So when describing airbending, you should keep in mind the element of freedom. Everyone talks about how defensive airbending is and how its mostly used for evasion, and you yourself said that it makes sense because its mostly used by monks who are peaceful by nature. Air is the element of freedom though, so it only makes sense that users of airbending have a defensive and deflective nature rather than an offensive nature to them so that they can protect themselves and their own freedoms while also trying their best to not impose themselves onto other people. The idea of freedom is also represented by the sub-bending styles of air: Levitation, and Astral Projection. Levitation allows you to fly freely and basically ignore gravity, which is one of the truest expressions of freedom I've ever heard of. Astral Projection allows you to leave your own body in spirit and go wherever you want to, another expression of the freedom that airbending represents. Water is the element of change, its sub-bending styles are ice and healing. Changing water into ice and also changing it back into water matches the theme of change pretty well. Healing can be construed as changing damaged/injured body parts into more whole and uninjured body parts. Earth is the element of substance. Iroh says the the people of the earth kingdom are diverse and strong, and that they are persistent and enduring. Out of all the elements, earth is the only solid one. The others are all gases or liquids, which are ever changing, flowing, and never resting. Earth is solid though. You stand on it, you can pick it up, you can feel its weight, you can feel how hard it is, and it never moves. Earth has weight to it. And the sub-styles of bending for earth are metal-bending and lava-bending. Metal is even heavier than earth/dirt, so its more "substantial" and stubborn. Lava-bending is essentially harnessing the essence of substance and stubbornness to pressurize the earth so much that it volcanizes and turns the earth itself into a slow moving liquid known as lava. And then we have Fire which is the element of power. Fire burns all that it touches but it also provides warmth. All beings generate heat and it is the source of our actions. Fire-bending is often shown as being very offensive, fire-benders will often punch and kick a bunch of quick blasts of fire just to light a small village on fire. Jeong Jeong taught us that fire is a force of destruction, that it cannot be so easily controlled, ...... (taking a nap now)))

I also love the stories in ATLA where you had badgermoles and Dragons teaching humans new ways to draw on latent spirituality and power within them. Those were always my favorite stories :3

What’s interesting is that it’s also not entirely genetics. If you remember in the “Fortune Teller” episode, there were identical twins. And identical twins supposedly share the same exact genetic material. However, only one twin was an earth bender

Avatar is one of the iconic shows of my childhood am so happy your doing these videos for people to understand anime keep up the good work

I am really glad that you are in fact talking about the show ATLA is one of the greatest animated TV shows I have ever seen in my life and I know I'm not the only one to agree to that literally I grew up watching the show and ever since it was put back on Netflix the show just exploded more and more. Waiting with much anticipation for the live action remake which it desperately needs. Great video as always great contact! I just wanna say I think that I would love to either be a water bender or an air bender, I also think that Nick would be a Airbender.

It wasn’t Aang and Kataras son that mentioned the different jing types, it was Aangs old friend the earth kind of omashu who he later names his son after

Keep making Avatar content!! I love that you now cover my two favorite shows🔥

I still hate how they destroyed the connection with the past avatars when Ravi after being killed had all her memorys in tact like Id be able to tolerate it if this divine spirit was revived as a new spirit entirely... Let me know if I'm mis-remembering stuff

Thanks for the video man, I never watched avatar before but always wondered how they managed to control elements. Your video was very entertaining and your explanations are on point. Great stuff :)

Heck yeah, I'd love to hear more about ATLA! I love all of your other videos and channels and this was a big part of my childhood, so seeing you cover it put a huge smile on my face.

Growing up my friends and I chose our bending styles. I was an Earth bender but more specifically a lava bander. That being said we all agreed that if we weren't benders we'd fight with Aman to get rid of all of them lol

Hello Mr. Nick I am one of the biggest fans out there and I love your content more than anything on KZfaq. I find my self refreshing your page everyday to see if a new vireo came out, I was wondering if you can make a video ranking the Gotei 13 captains as the TYBW arc is out and I think it will fit perfectly. Huge love and gratitude. Genuinely the best youtuber out there

I’m too hyped for this video. Please bring me more of these. Also I think you’d be an air bender just cause when I imagine monks I imagine them as very knowledgeable

Avatar is such a beautifully constructed universe and there is always more to discover or even just theorize about. More content on it would be awesome!

Your knowledge of anime & manga lore and magic systems never ceases to amaze me🤩Also, how you use your knowledge of Science to explain these systems such as bending is truly amazing🥰 I think you would be a Fire Bender lol

So this is probably been said before, and spoilers for the end of the last airbender. But in the final Agni Kai When Azula shoots lightning at katarra zuko successfully manages to redirect it. But IRO says that you need to be grounded when you redirect lightning. When zuko jumped in front of Katarra He could only bring the lightning into himself until he hit the ground. From that point you can see a lightning bolt shoot off in a different direction. Just a cool little detail about that scene, and how zuko managed to live.

16:22 water is actually more dense ,but it's actually understandable for the mistake to happen cause most of the time the solid is more dense and I Think you wanna be an Earth Bender it is in my opinion the most practical

Genius video! Keep up the good work man

I like how you broke down Fire Bending. Reminds me so much of the Red Lantern Corps. They thrive on hatred to fuel there rings. I can remember an episode of the Green Lantern series on Cartoon Network where Razor refused to get angry and his ring didn’t work anymore. He had to learn how to balance his anger in order to utilize his ring. In the latest Young Justice installation: Phantoms he duel wields a blue and red ring, talk about Harmonic Convergence!!! Loving all your channels keep up the awesome work👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I always wondered if the other elements could have a technique like sizmic sense. Like water bending having sonar, air bending with echolocation and fire bending with heat vision.

I'm really glad you're talking about Avatar, and I'd love to see you do more videos on it if you're down for it

as always, excellent video, love it

Thanks for making this! I'll be showing this to my grandma because I explaining the Avatar cycle to her and she got really interested! She used to watch ATLA with me a bit when I was younger. A lot people in older generations always assume animated=for kids. Which is fair since most animated cartoons in their generation was only for kids. But I always explain that there's so many amazing animated series that can appeal towards adults. ATLA and TOK is one of those series. Whether you watched it as a kid or watched for the first time as an adult, it's amazing! It's such an incredibly detailed world and videos like this show it. The only older children's serial animated series that comes near to the ATLA series is The Owl House. It gave me the same emotional roller coaster, depth, and details that I love in ATLA. My best friend is an ATLA lover too and even she was skeptical of watching The Owl House. But I had to remind her that ATLA is a children's cartoon too. But now she absolutely loves it and understands why I put TOH under ATLA and TOK.

I always laughed at how complicated bending was made out to be. Surprisingly anyone could become a bender and could choose the element they wanted. It was all about training in a specific form of martial arts. While genetics plays a mild part in proficiency, it comes down to personality. Boomie doesn’t have the personality to want to bend. Yet when the Airbenders re-emerge most had “airy” personalities. This is why getting students proved difficult. Like the wind these people were swept up to listen and then casually lost interest. Only a few were initially willing. Technically anyone could become a bender. The reason why some are stronger when it comes to bloodlines comes down to family disposition. Businessmen have kids who go into business. Laborers have kids who follow that. Tradesmen often pass their skill to their children. It comes to the personality of a child to be successful or not. A perfect case is the difference between The Trump children and Hunter Biden. Political bias aside one group runs successful businesses (despite your personal opinion). The other; not so much, if allegations are true. Airbender grow up and are born around bending. It is a part of their daily lives. They are much like birds. If you ask a bird “Why do you fly?”; it responds with “Because I do”. Airbenders bend like they breathe or their hearts beat.

Love last airbenders depiction of elemental powers through martial arts. Will always be mesmerizing

I've been the biggest avatar nerd since I was a little kid and I consider myself very well versed in the workings of the world, and Nick always manages to teach me something new.

I loved this. And I'd love more lol. Also I feel like you'd be a fire bender.

I really like how detail you are with your explanation, felt like I was in Bending 1101 Lecture with a Great Professor. I’mma Subscribe 🙏🏿

Found you because of the MHA hero rankings video, and subbed because of this. Good stuff, sir!

The thing with firebenders being able to fly. We’ve only ever seen firebenders do that during Sozin’s Comet when their abilities are amplified 100 fold. That or Korra using using the Avatar State, which is essentially the same idea. It’s an artificial power up.

I have been waiting for good avatar content, 😌 hit the spot. More please 🙏

Super cool show today Nick!

Definitely need more of this content

Definitely cover more avatar and possibly more content on the less popular shows like the Wiseman's grandson or something of that nature. I'll definitely be looking forward to more of your "what if" stories. keep up the great work bro

It makes sense that it's easier to fly with fire bending. Since the source of the fire is from within the person when it is directed out of them there would be an equal and opposite force against them. Plus controlled heating of the air which rapidly expands would aid in pushing them their desired direction. Fire benders just need to learn balance and intensity and direction. Air benders would need to condense the air extremely for it to be strong enough to lift someone, plus the human body is filled with curves and aerodynamic making it more difficult to control direction. Gliders make sense because they provide a large surface area and stiff frame to push against.

YES!! MORE AVATAR CONTENT!!! I love all of your videos. I feel like an educated weeb and it's all thanks to you ❤️🙏

I love this magic system and the balance of the elements. Water balances fire in flow vs direction, within vs without, canceling out with equal force (incapacitate) vs stamping out with overwhelming force (kill). Air balances Earth space vs matter, growing vs gaining, idea vs reality, restraint vs control. Also Air - Wit Water - Empathy Earth - Detrmination Fire - Drive I would guess that youd be... An airbender. Or a firebender. As a first time watcher so maybe i need more data to accurately guess.

Make a fire cube around you.. there’s how you use fire bending defensively. The narrative of the show is that fire bending has been changed into a more aggressive and offensive style. When zuko relearns firebending from the dragons, he learns all new skills of firebending that resembles the balance and defensive arts of water bending

keep making more! your awesome

YES MORE AVATAR! I love your videos and Avatar is my top 5 favorite verse; it’s also my “First Anime” 😂.

Awesome video loved it hopefully you can make more videos likr this but I just wanted to let you know I believe around 8:00 you said Bumi Aang and Kataras son wasn't a bender which yes he didn't have the ability to bend for the first major portion of his life but he did eventually unlock his air bending abilities in the legend of Korea.

If you play some fighting game, you already heard of attack, defense and neutral. Neutral is the situation before the first contact where there is no defined attacking or defending side

Waterbending's style was based on tai chi. Aang and Katara's son is not the bumi who told aang about jing, it was aang's childhood friend who they named their oldest child after. Firebenders can't really fly, the most skilled can propel themselves through the air for a short time. Only during sozin's comet was firelord ozai able to propel himself so well it was practically flying.

PLEASE DO MORE OF THIS!

Honestly, just keep making videos that you want to make. This is Weeb Commander, where all topics of anime/anime-ish topics can be explored. It's the perfect place for things like this, plus pretty sure everybody here will love it regardless. I know I do.

Love Avatar, its one of my favorite shows. I cant wait to see more content about it from the best anime encyclopedia on youtube🙏

More Avtar lore, pleaseeeee! Thank you for all that you do. Big fan 🙌🏼

Slowly becoming my favorite 'explain' youtuber Commander

in my book, always gonna be a cartoon, cartoon content is not what i expected from nick but im here for it hell yeah

Always love seeing Avatar content 🥳🥳 This was the first "anime" I watched, and it's what lead me to anime like Demon Slayer and Naruto, which lead me to your channel to make Naruto slightly less confusing 🤣🤣

Benders also enhance their fighting by adding other styles of bending to their own. zuko vs azula, zuko does both water and air fighting technique. katara makes a water wall against hama, an earth bending style.

Amazing vid. So well explained

"...This can kill you 😐. And that's, it 🙂!" 🤣🤣🤣 That sounds like Southern Water Tribe accidental humor all day

Keep the videos coming bro 🔥💯 N earthbending the most effective

The sub elements of earth bending are 1. Metal bending 2. Sand bending 3. Lava bending 4. Cesmic sense 5. Mud bending which is seen in toph in l.o.k. in the swamp. The sub elements of water bending are healing, blood bending l, ice projections or freezing water and spirit bending which is seen in unaloq who purifies dark spirits or when korra purified vaatu as water is the element of change

Love your content man, I'd definitely want to be an earthbender. Also do you think you could do a video about the Villains in both shows

Genius!! You're a metal bender most definitely

What a coincidence. I know I'm late as hell but I literally just finished Korra last week and here you go with a video bout bending. Perfect timing.

Without going into much detail, lightning is basically the same as fire and combustion. Just looking at the atomic level, fire is the quick release of chemical bonds releasing atoms. If you break the bonds faster you get combustion (explosion). If instead of breaking the whole atom and just do the lightest part, the electron, you have electricity. Combustion and fire go the speed of sound, but electricity goes about the speed of light, so stopping anything at the speed, with that much energy is significantly harder than just redirecting it. The ties are further deeper in thermodynamics when you consider how power plants and cars make electricity.

Talk about explaining avatar while following the avatar cycle. I don't know if that was planned or not, but it was neat

Hell yes more avatar! And idk maybe earth bender I'm thinking?

I love *THIS* Avatar universe (I'm not big on the blue people), and I already knew most of what you brought up. Still, I greatly enjoyed this video. Please, make more?

We need more of this

Definetly an earth bender, all around solid, just like ur content! keep it up man!

Great video, thanks!

I would love to see you do a deep dive on the bending styles. I feel like you would probably be a fire bender.

the bumi thing is really interesting because i feel like he was quite in touch with his spiritual side but only after air bending had been awakened in him.

great video! i noticed you said that Bumi(aang and kataras son) said that there are 85 different jing but it was Bumi aangs childhood friend not his son but overall great video!!

Keep up the avatar videos!

Maybe the reason bending got spread around could be that once your given bending it’s permanently have the ability deep in your DNA and it could be passed down

I actually gasped when I saw this. I absolutely LOVE the ATLA series. Still haven't watch TLoK, but I really should. I am so hyped that you like it too 💜💜

I think you would be a fire bender. I love this new channel by the way.

I could definitely see you as a water bender simply for the versatility it possesses. Though I could also see you as an Airbender as they’ve always seemed to be the most knowledgeable of the benders and we already know how much knowledge you possess.

It's a really nice video! I love it! But with a couple of mistakes, like the judo as the base for waterbendig and instead of saying that was a King Bumi's quote you said that was a Aang's son Bumi

Firebending actually has 4 subsets, though the 4th is only useful in certain situations. I'm talking about chi reading or whatever you want to call it

Love avatar content please make more

Hey Nick I think you could be either an earth, air, or water bender fire seems like the 1 that least matches your personality unless you consider burning passion like Oda does for Sanji

Yes it does make sense for skilled airbenders to be able to fly to some extent like firebenders even without achieving the power of flight, and it does actually happen when you see airbenders in avatar won's era flying to pick fruits from the trees with air blobs below their feet, you just missed it

Definitely do more avatar. I think you’d be a water or air bender

I may be mistaken in this but I do believe airbenders had the ability to fly until they developed and attachment to the air bison hence grounding them to Earth. You're supposed to detach from everything to be able to fly

Mercury is a metal according to the periodic table of elements, it just happens to melt at room temperature. So that would likely be some hyper advanced metal bending that takes techniques from water bending. Given that Iroh made a few fire bending techniques inspired by other benders, and Zuko used some obvious alternate bending moves in his Agni Kai against Azula it wouldn’t be too far fetched

Mucrury is a Liquid Metal, ergo it would be a metal bender exclusive though they have to be very much a master of metal bending and might need to look at water bending teachings to work it, like lightning redirecting

just continue to bless us with the information and don't let us chose because now am still confused who has the best battle between aang vs zuko or Kakashi vs obito in Naruto i think you would bend earth