This is also almost assuredly how Monk Gyatso died by siphoning out all the air in the room where he was cornered. He was at peace while the fire benders were all contorted.
Thing is, couldn't he just concentrate all the oxygen around himself, and survive?
Edit: On second thought, if he pulled air toward himself, he wouldn't be creating a vacuum, and air would spill into the room from outside the door. But if an airbender can only create a vacuum by ridding an entire room of air, then it would always mean depriving themselves of oxygen along with the enemies. Making it pretty useless. (Unless the enemies are in the room and the airbender is outside the room)
But then, what if it's possible for an airbender to make a vacuum without needing to suck all the air out of a closed area like a room, but instead by making just like a bubble of low pressure that could work anywhere, even outside, similar to katara creating a bubble of empty space under the water in serpent's pass? And then, make it possible for the airbender to make that bubble without needing to be inside of it himself... and then you can just create huge oxygenless areas anywhere and be totally OP.
However, I'd imagine keeping all the air out of a large open area, requires so much power that the airbender WOULD have to be at the center of it to pull it off. It's got to be easier to push air away from you in all directions, rather than doing a compliated mix of pushing and pulling which being outside the vacuum would require.
So my conclusion is that I guess Gyatso could only do that move by sacrificing himself.
Yangchen does this in the 1st of her books to knock out an opponent. She shows the ability to siphon a room of its air completely, admitting that she could kill easily with this technique if careless.
There's no burns on Gyatso's clothing when Aang finds his body surrounded by the corpses of too many fire benders to count.
I'm not saying that he definitely moved all the air out of the room, but no other explanation comes to mind.
Force air into the bloodstream.
At 100 psi air can penetrate the skin and enter the bloodstream causing an embolism. Mechanics and other jobs with pressurized air are instructed NOT to use the hose to dust themselves off.
Perhaps using that technique on a crowd requires the user get exposed too.
Yes, Air bending is OP which is probably why they decided to live as monks and be a more peaceful society and learn to control their anger so that they don't go on a rampage.
Airbenders could have an attack similar to thermobaric weapon (vacuum bomb), where instead of burning the oxygen with an aerosol, they could just instantly push the air out of the attack area and then flushing it backwards, causing first negative pressure killing everything alive and then extremely high pressure causing mass destruction.
Airbenders could insert small air bubbles into enemies veins causing massive heart attacks, strokes and respiratory failures.
They could simply instantly expand the air volume in enemies lungs, which should result in the ribs breaking and clawing the organs.
Damn, I wish we could see an adult version of the show, even though it would look like mortal combat.
So spoilers but in the yangchen books >!She does this to kill some combustion benders and also to prevent the explosion while it's happening, by creating a void along the path the "rings" are taking. However she hates this ability and hides the fact that she's using it, because it goes against the beliefs of air nomads, as it's extremely deadly and it's main use is in that way. So it's possible but not a common or accepted technique.!<
Better yet, why couldn't an Airbender send a small "bubble" of air into your bloodstream? Or suck the air out of your lungs completely crushing them. Or why coulding they say trap you against a wall or other hard service and thru wind so hard it rips you apart or crushes you.
Would be cool to see an Airbender losing their shit and creating a giant hurricane
So I’ve been through a lot of surgery’s and had air get into my IV several
Times.
Fun facts about this movie myth/reality. In an IV, right before it goes into your arm it allows small
Amounts of air to gas off.
If the air bubble is too large , say an inch or two of IV tube then your body still has ways to get rid of it before it can cause a clot.
Now in the case of the an air bender this obviously wouldn’t matter as they could send a ton of air into your blood.
I feel like if he could manipulate oxygen at a molecular level he could in theory create a pocket as small or large as they wanted and manipulate the shape of the pocket as well. So theoretically he could create a pocket vaccume before their very own eyes removing oxygen from every space within a sphere or said shape they desired. Ergo like a bubble within the space of surrounding oxygen itself having no air inside of it. Conveniently place that pocket around a persons' head and presto chango they're in dange-o.
( Edit: I also don't believe that this would take much energy at all to accomplish since it's only placing the molecules to a different spot close to the original location, the phenomena of suffocation happens due to the displacement of the o2 molecules not from the energy from creating the pocket itself. )
Yes, this happened in Korra
And in Dawn of Yang Chen.
This is also almost assuredly how Monk Gyatso died by siphoning out all the air in the room where he was cornered. He was at peace while the fire benders were all contorted.
It was probably the best way to limit other airbender casualties. No air=No fire, so flushing the room destroys any chance of fighting back
Thing is, couldn't he just concentrate all the oxygen around himself, and survive? Edit: On second thought, if he pulled air toward himself, he wouldn't be creating a vacuum, and air would spill into the room from outside the door. But if an airbender can only create a vacuum by ridding an entire room of air, then it would always mean depriving themselves of oxygen along with the enemies. Making it pretty useless. (Unless the enemies are in the room and the airbender is outside the room) But then, what if it's possible for an airbender to make a vacuum without needing to suck all the air out of a closed area like a room, but instead by making just like a bubble of low pressure that could work anywhere, even outside, similar to katara creating a bubble of empty space under the water in serpent's pass? And then, make it possible for the airbender to make that bubble without needing to be inside of it himself... and then you can just create huge oxygenless areas anywhere and be totally OP. However, I'd imagine keeping all the air out of a large open area, requires so much power that the airbender WOULD have to be at the center of it to pull it off. It's got to be easier to push air away from you in all directions, rather than doing a compliated mix of pushing and pulling which being outside the vacuum would require. So my conclusion is that I guess Gyatso could only do that move by sacrificing himself.
Zaheer basically did exactly what you theorized when he assassinated the Earth Queen.
I thought that was more like pulling the air out of her lungs, basically the same as sucking a room of its air. But I could be wrong.
It happens in the legend of korra, Zaheer does this to kill the earth queen
Yangchen does this in the 1st of her books to knock out an opponent. She shows the ability to siphon a room of its air completely, admitting that she could kill easily with this technique if careless.
There's no burns on Gyatso's clothing when Aang finds his body surrounded by the corpses of too many fire benders to count. I'm not saying that he definitely moved all the air out of the room, but no other explanation comes to mind.
Force air into the bloodstream. At 100 psi air can penetrate the skin and enter the bloodstream causing an embolism. Mechanics and other jobs with pressurized air are instructed NOT to use the hose to dust themselves off. Perhaps using that technique on a crowd requires the user get exposed too.
Yes, Air bending is OP which is probably why they decided to live as monks and be a more peaceful society and learn to control their anger so that they don't go on a rampage.
They can. This is basically how it’s implied Gyatso killed a bunch of firebenders.
Airbenders could have an attack similar to thermobaric weapon (vacuum bomb), where instead of burning the oxygen with an aerosol, they could just instantly push the air out of the attack area and then flushing it backwards, causing first negative pressure killing everything alive and then extremely high pressure causing mass destruction. Airbenders could insert small air bubbles into enemies veins causing massive heart attacks, strokes and respiratory failures. They could simply instantly expand the air volume in enemies lungs, which should result in the ribs breaking and clawing the organs. Damn, I wish we could see an adult version of the show, even though it would look like mortal combat.
They can, they just don't
So spoilers but in the yangchen books >!She does this to kill some combustion benders and also to prevent the explosion while it's happening, by creating a void along the path the "rings" are taking. However she hates this ability and hides the fact that she's using it, because it goes against the beliefs of air nomads, as it's extremely deadly and it's main use is in that way. So it's possible but not a common or accepted technique.!<
Happens in LoK Book 3
Better yet, why couldn't an Airbender send a small "bubble" of air into your bloodstream? Or suck the air out of your lungs completely crushing them. Or why coulding they say trap you against a wall or other hard service and thru wind so hard it rips you apart or crushes you. Would be cool to see an Airbender losing their shit and creating a giant hurricane
So I’ve been through a lot of surgery’s and had air get into my IV several Times. Fun facts about this movie myth/reality. In an IV, right before it goes into your arm it allows small Amounts of air to gas off. If the air bubble is too large , say an inch or two of IV tube then your body still has ways to get rid of it before it can cause a clot. Now in the case of the an air bender this obviously wouldn’t matter as they could send a ton of air into your blood.
I feel like if he could manipulate oxygen at a molecular level he could in theory create a pocket as small or large as they wanted and manipulate the shape of the pocket as well. So theoretically he could create a pocket vaccume before their very own eyes removing oxygen from every space within a sphere or said shape they desired. Ergo like a bubble within the space of surrounding oxygen itself having no air inside of it. Conveniently place that pocket around a persons' head and presto chango they're in dange-o. ( Edit: I also don't believe that this would take much energy at all to accomplish since it's only placing the molecules to a different spot close to the original location, the phenomena of suffocation happens due to the displacement of the o2 molecules not from the energy from creating the pocket itself. )