Talk:Firebending/@comment-130.18.195.189-20120813040928

I can shoot holes in probably half the fight sequences in TLA that feature firebenders by pointing out that while explosions do tend to be acompanied by shockwaves, fire itself has no concussive properties at all. Therefore all the scenes where something gets broken by firebending (all that stone during the finale of TLA season 2 for example) wouldn't work. The stone (or anyone encased in it) would have just kept on trucking (unless their eyes got burned out by the flames). Unfortunately, this puts paid to all the awesome bits where firebenders go jetting around on flame waves. Using an explosion to propel a jump, ok. Firebending jet propulsion? Sorry, no, you just burned your feet off. Yes, I know you all hate that I pointed that out.