Talk:Energybending/@comment-67.167.240.100-20120423033548

I got it! Re watch the episode in the original w/ aang and the guru, where they go through Aangs chakras. The first few are the fire earth water, etc chakras and the gurur talks about chakras as either blocking or allowing the flow of energy in the body. Now, consider that both republic city and the avatar korra have lost/never had a good connection to the spirit world, whereas amon seems to have one, so heres my theory:

Amons story about his family is a lie, he GAVE his face to Koe (sp?) the facestealer in exchange for the spiritual knowledge of how to expand his chi blocking skills so that he can block or open chakras at will. So during the revelation he simply blocked the lightning thugs fire chakra, not technically taking his bending away forveer but knowing that a republic city bender, especially a thug, will probably never ever figure out the spiritual process by which he could reopen his chakras, thus not technically but de facto taking away his bending forever!!