Talk:Bolin/@comment-3467624-20120303172753/@comment-3338975-20120314134143

From what I can tell from the series, one can really not just go out and learn bending unless one has the spiritual capacity for it - which I believe has something to do with element bending being descended from Energybending. When the series relates to Katara, Toph, etc., learning bending on their own, they seem to be talking about the characters learning to access abilities they already have (or in the case of Metalbending, apply what they already do know in a creative new way), not them just gaining the power out of the blue and immediately accessing it.