Talk:Chi blocking/@comment-5065006-20120502013128/@comment-201.246.65.70-20120507000811

There is also an important part with the plot within Legend of Korra: Benders forgot about the spiritual and philosophical ways of bending arts and focus solely on fighting, meaning that there is a large knowledge base that it's been forgotten, making them weaker and violent. The same principle can be applied to chi blockers: They are focusing their efforts on effectiveness in combat against those now lesser skilled benders and do their training in clandestine facilities to avoid detection, loosing some crucial knowledge in the process and off course requiring less skills to defeat modern benders.