Talk:Energybending/@comment-69.248.80.187-20120421213011/@comment-3005995-20120421235914

My theory is that he created a more advanced form of chi-blocking by studying energybending, either from Aang or the legends about it's origin (if any exist in that world) and using it to cut off the chi path from it's source in the mind instead of temorarily blocking it in the arms or legs. It would be sort of like a small mountain brook flowing down to form a large waterfall. You can try and put a wall at the waterfall's top or some part up the river, but the force will eventually overpower it or it will flow around it. But if you put a large enough barricade at the source of the brook, where it comes out of the mountain, you can stop the waterflow entirely.

This is just a theory of mine, I don't believe it to be extremely probably or anything, just a path the show could take, and the only one I could come up with.