Talk:Airbending/@comment-110.33.12.96-20111218141713/@comment-75.101.1.190-20120127044954

Yes, airbending DOES have a weakness - it has nowhere near the offensive strength of the other bending styles. Yes, we saw Aang use it use a few times to break stuff, but we never saw him cut through rock and steel like with waterbending, smash stuff like earthbending, or blow things up like in firebending (and no, the fireball wasn't a boulder, it was a mass of flammable stuff packed together - little more then a flaming mud-ball).

And about the "enclosed space" weakness - it has nothing to do with how much air there is. Airbending's greatest strength is the speed and maneuverability it gives it's user, who are capable of running circles around their opponents. A smaller space means less of an area to maneuver in. Simple as that..