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First of all, please indicate what episodes show her turning water to ice as a novice waterbender and child waterbenders learning healing since i can't remember seeing that, so i can check and see for myself cuz i remember katara using ice bending against Zuko only when she was able to really pwn him.

Secondly don't you think that you just contradicted yourself? First you said,

"I'm sorry, but ur designation of "the next level" is way off imo."

Then, towards the last part of your post you said,

"Air.. the next level of bending would most likely creating weather such as a tornado and being able to let it loose."

Maybe you didn't realize that you typed it so i'm just asking for clarification.

1.?? If turning water to ice is not the next level, then what should we call it??? The next step??? The next edge??? An entirely new branch??? She's changing the composition of water!?? If that's not the next level what is??? The explanation as to why they showed Katara being able to create ice even if she could hardly waterbend is that Nick wanted to hint to the audience that Katara was destined to be a powerful water bender.?? It is a common theme in anime (and avatar IS anime inspired) that characters with GREAT potential often at first exhibit often below standard abilities but are able to execute albeit haphazardly skills that only high-level warriors and experienced fighters can achieve.?? I could even name you four!?? (Naruto, Bleach, Hajime no Ippo (Knock Out) and Slam Dunk).

2.?? Just because children learn a technique doesn't disqualify it from being the next step of a certain technique.?? What about Toph.?? She's a child and she learned metal bending, does that discredit metal bending as being the next level of earthbending because she is a child??? Ok, let say that well, Toph's one special kid whereas in the Northern Water Kingdom, there were several children who were learning it and probably even have mastered it already.?? It just means that the children there are highly trained.?? You give so little credit to healing just because a child or that children can do it. Children when you start them out young often learn faster than adults. So just because they learn a technique that an adult teaches them doesn't mean that that technique was easy to learn!?? It depends on how rigorous the training was.??

Take math for example.?? It is common knowledge that generally speaking (there are exceptions of course) Asian children excel in math and even learn to solve logarithms w/o the use of calculators at middle school level.?? Does it mean that solving logarithms is easy?

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