Talk:Firebending/@comment-75.194.18.96-20120311025002/@comment-4888161-20120411144754

Actually it DOES mean that. Waterbenders can manipulate water in any form, whether that be solid ice, liquid water, gas vapor, etc. More specifically, they can manipulate water molecules (the smallest whole particles of the chemical compound) to take solid, gas, or liquid form at will. They simply slow down the molecules to turn water from liquid to ice so friction is irrelevant. It also doesn't matter if it's hot out, because the heat gets forced out in the process the waterbenders use to freeze water. Otherwise they couldn't freeze anything.

I don't know how you can even argue this as it's already been confirmed many times during the show. I mean you did watch it, right? This happened many times so I don't know how you could have possibly missed it if you actually watched ATLA.