Talk:Amon/@comment-68.36.104.132-20120617144555

theres been a lot of talk about whether Amon's ability to take away bending is energybending or an advanced chi blocking, and i feel that chi blocking would fit the theme of the story more that bending has become less spiritual and more physical. To me energy bending represents taking away the spiritual half of bending and chi blocking represents the physical half of bending. Energy is the source of all bending but its only through the body that it can be executed. I'm going to bet that whatever Amon does just severely blocks the body part and because people are already so weak in the spiritual part that when he does this they are unable to bend. Therefore if people who've had their bending taken away from are able to somehow find the spiritual part, it could overcome the physical blockage and they'd be able to bend again.