Talk:Bending arts/@comment-142.167.219.90-20120627041902

I was thinking; don't bender look more sturdy than non-benders? I mean, benders seem to be able to sustain great hits, and jump far and high, and run for a long time and just overall seem stronger for some reason.

For example in Southern Raiders, Zuko jumps from the temple and almost makes it to the airship. Then in The Boiling Rock he jumps for the gondola and it was quite far away. In The Western Air Temple, he gets hit in the chest by Toph's earthbending and is seen groaning in pain, but the next minute he's yelling about how bad he is at being good and the next morning he's jump-kicking Combustion Man in the head like nothing's happened. Like it didn't bruise him or anything, while that could've like...cracked a rib.

It's quite similar to what happened to Jet, but Jet died from it (probably cracked some ribs and it loged itself in his lung or something+internal bleeding). And Jet's a non-bender. I guess we can take in account that Long Feng aimed for the kill, so he probably put more strenght into it than Toph did against Zuko.

Aang falls from great heights straight on his legs again without as much a wince, and Toph does too. How do their legs stand that? Then Sokka goes in the finale, fall on the other ship some meters down, and breaks his leg. (which, ow, that fall seemed like it hurt a whole lot! That's understandable!).

Or during the eclipse, when Hakoda's in a watchtower (or whatevr it was) and there's an explosion apparently close to him; he gets out holding his sides and is seen hurt. Zuko has his bending blowing up in his face in Bitter Work and he just falls and gets back up, as well as in The Southern Raiders when he and Azula's fire punch make an explosion; it blasts them off, but they are physically unhurt. Though the latter might be because they were firebending and seemed prepared for the explosion; in the former Zuko was not expecting the fire (which was supposed to be lightning) to blow up in his face.

That's all I can really think of for now.