The History of Waterbending (Avatar)

The History of Waterbending (Avatar)

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Waterbending, one of the four elemental bending arts, is the hydrokinetic ability to control water in all of its various forms. This type of bending is used by the people of the Water Tribe, who are divided into the Southern, Northern, and lesser-known Foggy Swamp tribes, as well as those of the United Republic, each with their own unique bending style. Water is the element of change. The moon is the source of power in waterbending, and the original waterbenders learned to bend by observing how the moon pushed and pulled the tides. The Water Tribes are the only people who did not learn to bend from an animal, though the Moon and Ocean Spirits took the form of koi fish in the mortal world near the beginning of the Avatar world. The fighting style of waterbending is mostly fluid and graceful, acting in concert with the environment. Foggy Swamp style waterbending, however, is more rigid and straight. Waterbenders deal with the flow of energy; they let their defense become their offense, turning their opponents' own forces against them. Even when waterbenders do take an attack stance, their moves always appear to flow from one to the other.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Origin
02:04 Fighting Style
03:09 Northern & Southern Style
03:54 Foggy Swamp Style
05:06 Pro-bending Style
06:25 Weaknesses
08:56 Overcoming Weakness
09:51 Spirituality & Waterbending
12:14 Weapons

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[shukry]

it's fitting that only waterbenders learned their bending through a spirit so only waterbenders has the ability to do spirit bending as well

[alexale]

I think it’s interesting how Waterbendings are the only form of bending that learned from spirits and not animals. While Airbending is the most spiritual bending art but not learned from spirits.

[thegooddoggo]

Watching the water turn to ice, and back to water is oddly satisfying to me.

[shlyw]

Why not a single waterbending videos speak about waterbending healing. Like how it even works??

[shadenfroda]

History of water bending exists
Sokka *breaths in* “WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING WHAT IS THIS!

[Ghazannn]

1:19 What I took from both TLOK and ATLA is that the lion turtles used to give bending temporarily to people who lived on them. Once they stopped, the people who had the bending got to keep it and pass the "gene" down (whether it be active or not, like Katara and Katara’s parents) while those who didn’t get the bending are the current nonbenders (with those who didn’t have the "activated gene").
The new benders who got their power from the turtles then learned how to master from the 4 orignal benders (dragons, sky bisons, badgermoles and the moon).

I feel like this is emphasised within the fact that Wan got his firebending from a lion turtle and THEN mastered it with the dragon dance with an actual dragon.

The original benders and the lion turtles stories are not disconnected.

[bee]

I like the fact that Waterbending can be so diverse. You can Heal and you can Bloodbend... Waterbending is so underrated

[ObsidianAngiris]

I'd rather be a water bender over any other

[sakisangrador]

He should make a vid of the history of combustion bending

[kassidibrown]

i prefer waterbending over all the other bending of earth elemnt

[bigdexmedia]

Waterbending is the second element that I love in the Avatar universe. I love how diverse and creative it is as an element, a source of literal push and pull on the environment, it’s powerful but not too overpowered, the characters who are waterbenders are literal Swiss Army knives in combat depending on the amount of water around them presently, and how a master could manipulate the unseen water around them to be used as a weapon.

[amflwrr]

Water bending is the most satisfying element

[ProfessorEllenAnders]

I would say Katara is my favorite Waterbender because of her style and her moves is pretty much badass

[mangonow]

His voice sounds like it can be in an audio book lol

[detectivenora]

7:03
Ming Hua: _Am I a joke to you?_

[la_void]

The last one is earth bending lol can’t wait for it!

[MelodeathxTed]

Waterbending to me represents a pure spirit and love itself. An adaptable spirit that can't be contained or forced into a particular shape.

In MBTI terms, I think of the NF temperament as being water like because they are soft and intuitive, not easily bound by traditions, labels or boundaries, much like water.

[atomosa]

Alternate title: History of the strongest bending style

[andymeadows]

I would such a badass surfer as a water benders.

[LuisRamirez-rnyi]

Here's a plothole from the original Avatar:
The fire's nation guards bound the water benders only when they drank water, but they never did it when they wanted to pee. So Hama could have escaped by using pee bending.
Just think about it.