Martial Arts Deep Dive with Sifu Kisu and Bryan Konietzko
Avatar: Braving the Elements
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The Power of Breathing
The idea is that bending in this world is not magic. We kind of exemplified that worldview through Saka very early in the first episode where he kind of writes it off as magic, water, and katara corrects him. And so Kisu really instilled this idea that all movement, all intention has to start with a breath. They couldn't just look at a mountaintop or even imagine a mountaintops halfway across the world and just cause it to fall down. They had to actually extend their energy to that element in front of them.
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