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The Air Acolytes are nonbenders who have chosen to live the lifestyle of the Air Nomads to keep the culture alive. The guys you see at the beginning and Tenzin's wife Pema are Air Acolytes. The only Airbenders at the moment are Tenzin, his kids and Korra as the Avatar.
Yeah, considering the fact that Toph was . Only reason I’m saying that is because I think the underground earth bending circuit where Toph was found, I think it morphed into modern day pro bending
IIRC In Pro bending you win ONE Round by having more players in the front zones, esentially having the push against the opp team. You instantly win the match if you wipe the enemy team completely in one round
10:26 Keep in mind, most past Avatars don't even start learning other elements until they're 16, and they spend years devoted to each element. Korra is 17 and has mastered 3. She's definitely being bratty about it, but she doesn't comprehend how an element can be difficult to learn since she was so gifted at the others. It's easy to forget that learning the elements is supposed to take years when we watched Aang nearly master them in less than 1 lol
When you think about it, Korra’s had a completely different experience to every Avatar we’ve known. According to the old rules, the Avatar was told of their identity at age 16, and traveled the world to find bending teachers. Korra has known since age 3, and apparently grew up in a guarded compound near her hometown, having her bending teachers brought to her. She’s the shelteredest of sheltered teens. The whole world outside her compound and her own role in it is made up of nothing but stories. It’s going to take a lot of mistakes and reality checks to get her to where our favorite globetrotting monk was at age 13.
Usually they didn't even need to travel the world to find bending teachers. Their bending masters tended to be selected and ready to go for when the Avatar was discovered. Like, Kyoshi's bending teachers were really just Avatar Kuruk's Team Avatar buddies.
@@corystanish Still, some cultural immersion was involved. And Roku seems to have sought out his bending teachers. Maybe neither of us should use the world “usually” when we only have four Avatars to go off of, two of whom are special cases.
@@jamesalexander5559 That's actually how it ended up, yeah. But Kuruk's friends were all in position to teach the new Avatar, it just ... didn't go that way in the long run. Or even in the short run.
Somewhat correct I think but also not entirely right, it was customary to reveal the avatars identity at age 16, meaning that they lived a pretty normal life (in one location) up until that age. If korra is only like 16/17 at the start of the show that would only be slightly longer (living in one location) than the other avatars, only like a year if even. Remember Roku didn’t travel/live in the other kingdoms to train until much later. He spent years mastering his second element, meaning that he had only experienced 2 of the 4 cultures even by the time he was well into his 20’s
I would argue that Korra has a point that Tenzin isn’t a very good teacher. As Korra said herself, air is the element of freedom yet she is meant to be confined to a single island while being surrounded by a huge city she hasn’t gotten to explore yet. I think this episode helps set up both Korra and Tenzin as flawed characters and I really enjoy that about their relationship.
He also didn’t adapt his teaching to his student - he treated Korra like one of his kids, and that’s just not going to work for a 17 year old girl who’s also your dad. I can imagine the gates exercise is made a LOT easier for the kids by the simple fact that they take up a fraction of the space of a late teen/young adult. To start her off on it, spinning at full speed? Just feels cruel.
@@starkid910Airbending is shown to be about lows and highs, just like the flight technique that only works when you leave all thats material behind. I think Tenzin wanted her to go through that so she could free herself. We see that this actually works on the probending match, she just needed a different motivation other than be a leaf
I’d say she’s being a pretty bad student, but there is a certain irony of a nomadic culture confining her, especially when the original series travelled the whole world.
Korra can't airbend because she has never experienced true freedom, though she is v willful and bold she has always been controlled by the White Lotus.
Thank you! I feel like most people miss this. Yea her personality plays a part, but I don't think she would have made any progress if she stayed in that compound.
Something I love is that the traditional martial arts bending evolved into something more akin to boxing or MMA with pro bending, kinda like the real world
I remember an early meme from this episode: Mako, staring wistfully into the distance: Korra….. Korra, staring wistfully into the distance: Pro bending…..
I find it so honorable that the creators named one of their characters after Uncle Iroh's original voice actor. They understood how impactful he was on their creation and the fans that loved it. Now he's forever immortalized within the show.
Clarifying about pro-bending, you only get the green light to advance in the enemy's territory if there are no enemies left in that zone ... For example, Korra was in zone 3, but since mako and Bolin were still in zone 1, they couldn't advance, if mako and Bolin were pushed to zone 2, the enemy would get the green light to advance into their zone 1
Ok quick thing....... Tenzins family are the only air benders left, those other people at the air temple dressed like air nomads are the "air acolytes" there a group of non benders who took up the life of air nomads when there were none and continued to traditions.
Not yall blaming Korra for not learning a skill only taught by one teacher that had to be convicned to train her anywyay 😂 Also dont forget, the white lotus had a lock on Korra. So even tho shes 15-16yrs old shes quite stunted as she has only experienced being the Avatar in her homeland surrounded by guards and only been training. She's very much new to the world just as Tenzin is new to teaching her. They both are impatient and jump to conclusions. Give her some grace.
The reason there are no airbenders fighting in the tournament is because the only air bender is alive are children or tenson… there’s enough water, benders fire benders in earth benders to make a league, but not enough Airbenders to participate
Here's how pro-bending works: (1) Every round lasts 3 minutes max. (2) Whichever team advanced the most zones before timer ends wins the round. (3) Knocking all players out is an automatic game win. It's the best of 3 rounds. Even if a team wins 2 in a row, the third round is always played because there's the chance of a team getting knocked out. A player getting pushed back a zone doesn't mean the team is pushed back. All 3 need to be pushed back for the opposing team to advance a zone. Imagine both Team A and Team B have players in zones 1, 2, and 3... - If Team A were to knock the enemy player back from zone 1 to 2, they would take Team B's zone 1. This also causes a small reset with positioning. Team B's players would now all get placed in zone 2 (even the player who was in zone 3). Team A would now control their 3 zones and all their players would start in Team B's zone 1. Team A would win this round so long as all 3 of their players don't get knocked out of Team B's zone 1. - Another option would be to target Team B's player in zone 3. It's a riskier move because they're the furthest away, but knocking them out would mean they're out for the remainder of the round (even if Team B were to advance forward a zone).
It's going to be hilarious when the guys realize yooo this show is fuckin amazin. People just don't like change. But both series offer different things that make them both lit
@@Fipul30 and don't forget how childish aang was when he needed to be deadly serious. I feel like aang would've handled korras problems better and korra would've dealt with aangs problems better
Every time a reactor starts reacting to this series, they always say at the beginning how so many people told them the show isn't good and they don't know if they're gonna like it. But then everybody ends up like "I don't know what everyone was talking about, this is really good!" I only ever saw one reactor that didn't like it after the first episode, and that was for a pretty dumb reason.
@@Fipul30 To be fair, TLOK covered a fair bit of the holes that ATLA itself had. For example, it had a better explanation of how bending came to be than just animals and the moon teaching people which was kinda a brain dead reason with a so many holes. Another hole is that, how in a world where people can literally manipulate elements are they so technologically slow. TLOK fixed that by quickly bringing about a longtime needed industrial revolution. All around I think BOTH shows are flawed and in fact I find more plot holes in ATLA than TLOK. Like the finale of ATLA was filled with ALOT of plot holes.
So from what ive gathered from watching the show the rules for pro bending are: -push your opponent back with your element, with restrictions on how you can bend like no using shit like a water whip to grab and throw people -if you get pushes back over a line youre locked into that zone, and fouls can get you pushed back, this is on a player by player basis which is how korra was in zone 3 but the others were zone 1 -if all 3 players get pushed back then the other team can advance and the new "middle" is the front of the new zone -the point for each round is based on remaining players and i think the zone theyre in is a tie breaker, aka if its 3v3 left but korra is zone 3 while rest are zone 1 the opponent would get the point -if all 3 players are knocked off in the same round then thats a knockout and an automatic victory.
The way I like to think about the kids of our ATLA characters are that they mainly inherited one aspect of their parent’s personality: Tenzin with Aang’s zen-ness and Lin with Toph’s stubbornness; you’ll see more when you meet the other kids. Can’t disagree though Tenzin got a big stick up his bum but understandable cause he’s got to shoulder the pressure of preserving the entire culture of airbenders.
The rules of pro bending are actually completely clear; they released a PDF of the rulebook on the Legend of Korra website when the show first came out. The players each get pushed back into different zones separately. So when Korra being pushed back to zone 3 means that Korra is stuck in zone 3, She's not allowed to move forward past the red line, but Mako and Bolin can stay in zone 1 until they get pushed back themselves, and if they pushed everybody out of zone 1 then the opposite team can move into that space. The Platypus Bears were trying to keep the brothers busy while they singled out Korra to knock her out and force the boys to fight them 2 on 3.
Mako is named after the first voice actor of Uncle Iroh who died between recording of Book 2 and 3 of ATLA. That was the dedication in the Tales of Ba Sing Se episode
Tenzin is probably my favorite character in this show, y'all touched on it at the end, but his uptight demeanor is definitely a result of feeling the weight of his father's legacy. Republic City, The Avatar, and the future of the Air Nation are all parts of Aang's legacy and now entirely on Tenzin's shoulders, which he takes very seriously
i rly hope yall can be patient w the teenage drama and upcoming interpersonal conflicts! it’s going to get a little rough which is a given since theyre hormonal teens 😂
You have to push back all three players from a zone to advance. I love Korra's character development over the four seasons + comic books after. Its a great journey!
You guys are so true! definetely pro bending is more like boxing than regular bending and that is why I love it, Bolin & Mako are great and even tho this season is kind of mid the coming seasons are totally worth it, hope you guys continue this series !
And Korra struggles with pro bending a bit because she's really good at bending, and fighting, but she's not practiced in doing either of those things within the strict rules of pro bending. Nothing in her training ever prepared her for having to stay within a zone, there weren't necessarily rules against going for headshots, there weren't limits on how long you could shoot a stream of water at someone (maximum 1 second burst in the pro bending ring). And she never had to do it in an ill-fitting padded suit and helmet either!
@@corystanish I think there's also a factor in who her teachers were - the White Lotus, Katara... people who practiced and taught the traditional style of bending. Korra is not as experienced with the modern, quicker style that probenders use.
For the pro bending match, they only get the green light to advance if ALL opponents are pushed back. It’s possible to only have 1 or 2 teammates in different sections if they got knocked back.
14.44 - a full teem knockout is an automatic game win. as for the line crossing only korra was pushed back, the teams only advance when all opposing players r pushed back as shown earlier.
They were pinned against the ropes in zone one the other team can't advance until all players are pushed back from that zone. And even if you lose two rounds you can come back and win if you knock out all players. Like in a ufc fight even if you lost on points in the first couple rounds if you knock the guy out that's the end of the fight
So, one important aspect of pro-bending is that you can only bend the earth discs in your own zone, and you can only bend water that is in the grates in front and at the back of your zone. When the announcer talks about them running out of juice, that's what they mean. It's not that the benders are tired, but rather that they have nothing left to bend. Fire is obviously the exception to this, as they don't need any external source to fuel them. If you look online you can find a full rulebook on the rules of pro-bending, including the scoring system and what constitutes a legal hit (no headshots with earth and fire, no continuous streams of fire or water for more than one second, water must remain liquid, no reshaping/breaking the earth discs, etc).
Ngl, I always loved how far the season goes to show that Korra is a flawed and rebelious teenager often getting into trouble and its her fault, but it allows her to grow so much throughtout all 4 seasons
It isn't her foult she hasn't learned airbending in all that time she just didn't hav anyone to teach and she wasn't a natural in it like in the other elements
You can go backwards, but not forward outside of your zone, unless one is empty in front of you. One player must remain in the center most zone they control or they lose it to the other team. You can gain it back by pushing them back out of your zone. The idea is to keep pushing them back to the smaller zone and off the back. Each round has a time limit. Three rounds win the match, with a sudden death if it ends in a 2 to 2 draw. If you can knock all three players off the back in any single round, you win the match automatically, regardless of how many rounds you happened to be behind. I hope this helps you understand the rules better.
Did that new character's name ring a bell at all? Mako. Well out of respect for him, I'll tell you: Uncle Iroh's first voice actor before he passed. RIP Mako.
5:24 lol Katara did the same thing 13:44 it was a little sudden, but _yes_ Some don't catch the trigger being the spin dodge she had to do 14:24 hehe 14:32 ? 14:45 i guess they just had to survive...? 15:00 well it was a foul, and the first thing or two were penalty 15:41 lol Meng 15:50 teenage drama...well, not yet 🤭 16:49 people say it's a lil Katara
Aang died young at the age of 66 which is young, due to being in the iceberg and the avatar state for so long Aang was 12 in avatar. He died at 66 54 years after the end of avatar. Korea is 17. She was born the day aang died. So 54 + 17 = 71 years after the ATLA finale. The upcoming earth bending avatar is set to be about 100 years after the end of Korra. This will put the new avatar in approximately 2030 of their world. The creators of the show said it would be a cyber punk feel.
Makos style actually resembles and may be based off Mike Tysons peekaboo style which uses weaving head movement and footwork to slip punches and counter punch
It's not really at all fair to say it's Korra's fault that she's 16 and hasn't bent air when literally no other Avatar, besides Aang, has bent another element besides their natural element until after they're 16. And Aang didn't until he was 12, mostly because they told him early and he almost got himself killed. She is literally ahead of every Avatar before her. I mean, Kyoshi, one of the best Avatars in history, was a horrible Earthbender. So much so she wasn't even on the radar to be the Avatar.
12:27 God damn... The way you are sitting with one hand on your head like that. Like I already thought you had a cute face and nice personality, now I know you got big arms too... making a guy blush over here...
so the opponents only get to advance when all 3 members go back 1 zone, and if you, at any point manage to knock all 3 players off the ring through the back then the team wins by knockout
I watched this when I was 7 and have seen other react to Korra recently. I think the reason why she didn't learn air bending sooner was bc she was busy with the other elements. It's not like she never saw Tenzin growing up training, ig she just prioritized which ones she wanted first. It's not her fault really that she didn't learn air bending earlier, like Tenzin said the hardest one is the opposite of her personality. Korra is hot headed, stubborn so it's obvious fire will be the easiest. Water is also easy due to being apart of the water tribe.
Tenzin is Oldest child of 3. A Boy. Burdened by Responsability of Restoring and Keeping Air-nomad culture by his Father. if you want to hear it in Music form look up Encanto's Under Surface song.
How did yall not get the rules of pro bending? lol Korra got knocked back to zone 3, but the brothers hadn't, so enemy team can't advance yet untill all 3 are pushed back. Knocking off all players = winning It was pretty simple
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Although I like personally love boxing as a sport, I didn't like what they did to bending for this series - where all elements were stripped of any individuality and it's basically just boxing (minus tenzin). Maybe it was easier to animate - or cheaper because they didn't need to hire a martial arts master to give life to all the different bending styles through different martial arts. My girlfriend back in college was blind and she actually learned Praying-mantis kung fu growing up from a young age (before avatar last airbender even existed) which is the same martial-arts style that Toph's earth bending mimics, because it actually had deep roots to blind practitioners, and some styles were supposedly created by blind martial artists. It's a little sad that you don't really need to really train or find a master because all it boils down to is - all you need to do to bend any element.. is just punch. Air, water, fire, earth - it's all the same and it doesn't matter, just punch.
The pacing in the first season is really wacky because they were only greenlit for this single season, meaning they effectively had to stuff _all_ the characters' personal arcs and fit _as much_ of everything else as possible into 12 episodes. To put that into perspective, they had half the length of a single season from AtLA to tell the overarching narrative of AtLA. The Avatar team is talented. They know their shit. If they were given the go-ahead from the get-go, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind they'd cooked something amazing.
I do like to compare this season to ATLA season 1. I loved everything about Aang and his adventures but I never really enjoyed the first season as much as seasons 2 and 3. I think Korra has that feel also. The first season is slower but you get a feel for the characters and the plot of how the show is going to go. Just stick with it please
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The Air Acolytes are nonbenders who have chosen to live the lifestyle of the Air Nomads to keep the culture alive. The guys you see at the beginning and Tenzin's wife Pema are Air Acolytes. The only Airbenders at the moment are Tenzin, his kids and Korra as the Avatar.
Ofc
"Aang's ears were pretty big too"
Oyaji: "The biggest of any Avatar!"
If all contestants are knocked off the ring, then it is a Knockout. Automatic win when that happens
I think it's funny that Tenzin has such disdain for pro bending. Because you know who would have LOVED pro bending? Aang, that's who.
Yeah, considering the fact that Toph was . Only reason I’m saying that is because I think the underground earth bending circuit where Toph was found, I think it morphed into modern day pro bending
Tenzin's personality is mostly from Katara.
IIRC In Pro bending you win ONE Round by having more players in the front zones, esentially having the push against the opp team. You instantly win the match if you wipe the enemy team completely in one round
10:26 Keep in mind, most past Avatars don't even start learning other elements until they're 16, and they spend years devoted to each element. Korra is 17 and has mastered 3. She's definitely being bratty about it, but she doesn't comprehend how an element can be difficult to learn since she was so gifted at the others.
It's easy to forget that learning the elements is supposed to take years when we watched Aang nearly master them in less than 1 lol
When you think about it, Korra’s had a completely different experience to every Avatar we’ve known.
According to the old rules, the Avatar was told of their identity at age 16, and traveled the world to find bending teachers.
Korra has known since age 3, and apparently grew up in a guarded compound near her hometown, having her bending teachers brought to her.
She’s the shelteredest of sheltered teens. The whole world outside her compound and her own role in it is made up of nothing but stories. It’s going to take a lot of mistakes and reality checks to get her to where our favorite globetrotting monk was at age 13.
Usually they didn't even need to travel the world to find bending teachers. Their bending masters tended to be selected and ready to go for when the Avatar was discovered. Like, Kyoshi's bending teachers were really just Avatar Kuruk's Team Avatar buddies.
@@corystanish Still, some cultural immersion was involved. And Roku seems to have sought out his bending teachers. Maybe neither of us should use the world “usually” when we only have four Avatars to go off of, two of whom are special cases.
@@corystanish I'd argue that the friends of Kyoshi's parents were her teachers and she did do some travelling to find them.
@@jamesalexander5559 That's actually how it ended up, yeah. But Kuruk's friends were all in position to teach the new Avatar, it just ... didn't go that way in the long run. Or even in the short run.
Somewhat correct I think but also not entirely right, it was customary to reveal the avatars identity at age 16, meaning that they lived a pretty normal life (in one location) up until that age. If korra is only like 16/17 at the start of the show that would only be slightly longer (living in one location) than the other avatars, only like a year if even. Remember Roku didn’t travel/live in the other kingdoms to train until much later. He spent years mastering his second element, meaning that he had only experienced 2 of the 4 cultures even by the time he was well into his 20’s
15:14 “do the thing”
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Props for recognizing Tenzin as Katara’s son and not just Aang’s. Might be the first reactors I’ve seen do so.
The bending in Korra is based of mixed martial arts instead of traditional fighting styles, that’s why the animation is much more explosive
I would argue that Korra has a point that Tenzin isn’t a very good teacher. As Korra said herself, air is the element of freedom yet she is meant to be confined to a single island while being surrounded by a huge city she hasn’t gotten to explore yet.
I think this episode helps set up both Korra and Tenzin as flawed characters and I really enjoy that about their relationship.
He also didn’t adapt his teaching to his student - he treated Korra like one of his kids, and that’s just not going to work for a 17 year old girl who’s also your dad.
I can imagine the gates exercise is made a LOT easier for the kids by the simple fact that they take up a fraction of the space of a late teen/young adult. To start her off on it, spinning at full speed? Just feels cruel.
@@starkid910Airbending is shown to be about lows and highs, just like the flight technique that only works when you leave all thats material behind. I think Tenzin wanted her to go through that so she could free herself. We see that this actually works on the probending match, she just needed a different motivation other than be a leaf
I’d say she’s being a pretty bad student, but there is a certain irony of a nomadic culture confining her, especially when the original series travelled the whole world.
@@TukaihaHithlec Well like the original comment (and the show itself) said, they're both a little at fault for the conflict this episode :)
I think that during all the series we can see that tenzin is not a good teacher.
Korra can't airbend because she has never experienced true freedom, though she is v willful and bold she has always been controlled by the White Lotus.
Thank you! I feel like most people miss this. Yea her personality plays a part, but I don't think she would have made any progress if she stayed in that compound.
Something I love is that the traditional martial arts bending evolved into something more akin to boxing or MMA with pro bending, kinda like the real world
I remember an early meme from this episode:
Mako, staring wistfully into the distance: Korra…..
Korra, staring wistfully into the distance: Pro bending…..
I find it so honorable that the creators named one of their characters after Uncle Iroh's original voice actor. They understood how impactful he was on their creation and the fans that loved it. Now he's forever immortalized within the show.
Clarifying about pro-bending, you only get the green light to advance in the enemy's territory if there are no enemies left in that zone ... For example, Korra was in zone 3, but since mako and Bolin were still in zone 1, they couldn't advance, if mako and Bolin were pushed to zone 2, the enemy would get the green light to advance into their zone 1
ATLA was about a person becoming the avatar.
TLOK is about the avatar becoming a person.
That’s the best way to describe the two series together.
Ok quick thing....... Tenzins family are the only air benders left, those other people at the air temple dressed like air nomads are the "air acolytes" there a group of non benders who took up the life of air nomads when there were none and continued to traditions.
Not yall blaming Korra for not learning a skill only taught by one teacher that had to be convicned to train her anywyay 😂
Also dont forget, the white lotus had a lock on Korra. So even tho shes 15-16yrs old shes quite stunted as she has only experienced being the Avatar in her homeland surrounded by guards and only been training.
She's very much new to the world just as Tenzin is new to teaching her. They both are impatient and jump to conclusions. Give her some grace.
I'm pretty sure Korra is 17 right now.
The reason there are no airbenders fighting in the tournament is because the only air bender is alive are children or tenson… there’s enough water, benders fire benders in earth benders to make a league, but not enough Airbenders to participate
Here's how pro-bending works: (1) Every round lasts 3 minutes max. (2) Whichever team advanced the most zones before timer ends wins the round. (3) Knocking all players out is an automatic game win.
It's the best of 3 rounds. Even if a team wins 2 in a row, the third round is always played because there's the chance of a team getting knocked out. A player getting pushed back a zone doesn't mean the team is pushed back. All 3 need to be pushed back for the opposing team to advance a zone.
Imagine both Team A and Team B have players in zones 1, 2, and 3...
- If Team A were to knock the enemy player back from zone 1 to 2, they would take Team B's zone 1. This also causes a small reset with positioning. Team B's players would now all get placed in zone 2 (even the player who was in zone 3). Team A would now control their 3 zones and all their players would start in Team B's zone 1. Team A would win this round so long as all 3 of their players don't get knocked out of Team B's zone 1.
- Another option would be to target Team B's player in zone 3. It's a riskier move because they're the furthest away, but knocking them out would mean they're out for the remainder of the round (even if Team B were to advance forward a zone).
It's going to be hilarious when the guys realize yooo this show is fuckin amazin. People just don't like change. But both series offer different things that make them both lit
Kora has some holes here and there. Aang was slightly better in that regard. Plus all that stupid teenage drama.
@@Fipul30 atla had annoying ass moments and characters too. Like katara I hated that btch for most of the show.
@@Fipul30 and don't forget how childish aang was when he needed to be deadly serious. I feel like aang would've handled korras problems better and korra would've dealt with aangs problems better
Every time a reactor starts reacting to this series, they always say at the beginning how so many people told them the show isn't good and they don't know if they're gonna like it. But then everybody ends up like "I don't know what everyone was talking about, this is really good!" I only ever saw one reactor that didn't like it after the first episode, and that was for a pretty dumb reason.
@@Fipul30 To be fair, TLOK covered a fair bit of the holes that ATLA itself had. For example, it had a better explanation of how bending came to be than just animals and the moon teaching people which was kinda a brain dead reason with a so many holes.
Another hole is that, how in a world where people can literally manipulate elements are they so technologically slow. TLOK fixed that by quickly bringing about a longtime needed industrial revolution.
All around I think BOTH shows are flawed and in fact I find more plot holes in ATLA than TLOK. Like the finale of ATLA was filled with ALOT of plot holes.
So from what ive gathered from watching the show the rules for pro bending are:
-push your opponent back with your element, with restrictions on how you can bend like no using shit like a water whip to grab and throw people
-if you get pushes back over a line youre locked into that zone, and fouls can get you pushed back, this is on a player by player basis which is how korra was in zone 3 but the others were zone 1
-if all 3 players get pushed back then the other team can advance and the new "middle" is the front of the new zone
-the point for each round is based on remaining players and i think the zone theyre in is a tie breaker, aka if its 3v3 left but korra is zone 3 while rest are zone 1 the opponent would get the point
-if all 3 players are knocked off in the same round then thats a knockout and an automatic victory.
The way I like to think about the kids of our ATLA characters are that they mainly inherited one aspect of their parent’s personality: Tenzin with Aang’s zen-ness and Lin with Toph’s stubbornness; you’ll see more when you meet the other kids. Can’t disagree though Tenzin got a big stick up his bum but understandable cause he’s got to shoulder the pressure of preserving the entire culture of airbenders.
The rules of pro bending are actually completely clear; they released a PDF of the rulebook on the Legend of Korra website when the show first came out.
The players each get pushed back into different zones separately. So when Korra being pushed back to zone 3 means that Korra is stuck in zone 3, She's not allowed to move forward past the red line, but Mako and Bolin can stay in zone 1 until they get pushed back themselves, and if they pushed everybody out of zone 1 then the opposite team can move into that space.
The Platypus Bears were trying to keep the brothers busy while they singled out Korra to knock her out and force the boys to fight them 2 on 3.
15:13 you made a reference without knowing it
Mako is named after the first voice actor of Uncle Iroh who died between recording of Book 2 and 3 of ATLA. That was the dedication in the Tales of Ba Sing Se episode
Pro Bending is a funny paradox in that while there are no air benders the best technique is using an air Bender's agility to not get knocked off
Bolin is a chad, that's why
Tenzin is probably my favorite character in this show, y'all touched on it at the end, but his uptight demeanor is definitely a result of feeling the weight of his father's legacy.
Republic City, The Avatar, and the future of the Air Nation are all parts of Aang's legacy and now entirely on Tenzin's shoulders, which he takes very seriously
i rly hope yall can be patient w the teenage drama and upcoming interpersonal conflicts! it’s going to get a little rough which is a given since theyre hormonal teens 😂
Especially one who’s been cooped up in a training compound in the South Pole most of her life lol the White Lotus really fucked her over socially
Yeah it's a bit of a trudge but there's gold sprinkled throughout until Book 3 where I feel Korra began to hit its stride.
You have to push back all three players from a zone to advance. I love Korra's character development over the four seasons + comic books after. Its a great journey!
Well def not "her fault" for not learning airbending in 16 years. There are not many of them around to teach her lol
You guys are so true! definetely pro bending is more like boxing than regular bending and that is why I love it, Bolin & Mako are great and even tho this season is kind of mid the coming seasons are totally worth it, hope you guys continue this series !
And Korra struggles with pro bending a bit because she's really good at bending, and fighting, but she's not practiced in doing either of those things within the strict rules of pro bending. Nothing in her training ever prepared her for having to stay within a zone, there weren't necessarily rules against going for headshots, there weren't limits on how long you could shoot a stream of water at someone (maximum 1 second burst in the pro bending ring). And she never had to do it in an ill-fitting padded suit and helmet either!
@@corystanish I think there's also a factor in who her teachers were - the White Lotus, Katara... people who practiced and taught the traditional style of bending. Korra is not as experienced with the modern, quicker style that probenders use.
"Yer a terrible teacher, Daddy!"
Go off, Meelo. Go off.
For the pro bending match, they only get the green light to advance if ALL opponents are pushed back. It’s possible to only have 1 or 2 teammates in different sections if they got knocked back.
14.44 - a full teem knockout is an automatic game win. as for the line crossing only korra was pushed back, the teams only advance when all opposing players r pushed back as shown earlier.
Enter the bending brothers
15:13 "now do the thing "
Me : if only you knew what i know 😂😂😂
They were pinned against the ropes in zone one the other team can't advance until all players are pushed back from that zone. And even if you lose two rounds you can come back and win if you knock out all players. Like in a ufc fight even if you lost on points in the first couple rounds if you knock the guy out that's the end of the fight
So, one important aspect of pro-bending is that you can only bend the earth discs in your own zone, and you can only bend water that is in the grates in front and at the back of your zone. When the announcer talks about them running out of juice, that's what they mean. It's not that the benders are tired, but rather that they have nothing left to bend. Fire is obviously the exception to this, as they don't need any external source to fuel them.
If you look online you can find a full rulebook on the rules of pro-bending, including the scoring system and what constitutes a legal hit (no headshots with earth and fire, no continuous streams of fire or water for more than one second, water must remain liquid, no reshaping/breaking the earth discs, etc).
I prefer the villains in korra over ATLA, and Korra has grew on me a lot by each season
Ngl, I always loved how far the season goes to show that Korra is a flawed and rebelious teenager often getting into trouble and its her fault, but it allows her to grow so much throughtout all 4 seasons
“See, why is he (Bolin) getting the girls? (Rather than mako)” lol
You guys definitely have to finish the season you guys will really enjoy it in the end
Fact about Mako he was named after Mako Iwamatsu the voice actor of Uncle Iroh from Season 1 and season 2 as a homage to him.
It isn't her foult she hasn't learned airbending in all that time she just didn't hav anyone to teach and she wasn't a natural in it like in the other elements
And the fact she was a natural is shocking when most avatars don’t even know about them being avatars until they are 16..
About 70 years between the end of the 100 year war and Korra series.
Aang died at the age of 66 (166)
Pro bending is hands down my favorite addition to the lore this season and I'm not even a sports guy.
I'm IN LOVE with the guy on our left side 🤩
You can go backwards, but not forward outside of your zone, unless one is empty in front of you. One player must remain in the center most zone they control or they lose it to the other team. You can gain it back by pushing them back out of your zone. The idea is to keep pushing them back to the smaller zone and off the back. Each round has a time limit. Three rounds win the match, with a sudden death if it ends in a 2 to 2 draw. If you can knock all three players off the back in any single round, you win the match automatically, regardless of how many rounds you happened to be behind.
I hope this helps you understand the rules better.
0:28 true legends never trully die.
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5:11 His name is Bolin the rizz bender 💀
i see a lot of katara in tenzin..
Did that new character's name ring a bell at all? Mako. Well out of respect for him, I'll tell you: Uncle Iroh's first voice actor before he passed. RIP Mako.
Pro bending was one of my favorite parts of the series
hereeee it cooomes! Mako's bizzare adventures
5:24 lol Katara did the same thing
13:44 it was a little sudden, but _yes_
Some don't catch the trigger being the spin dodge she had to do
14:24 hehe
14:32 ?
14:45 i guess they just had to survive...?
15:00 well it was a foul, and the first thing or two were penalty
15:41 lol Meng
15:50 teenage drama...well, not yet 🤭
16:49 people say it's a lil Katara
Aang died young at the age of 66 which is young, due to being in the iceberg and the avatar state for so long
Aang was 12 in avatar.
He died at 66
54 years after the end of avatar.
Korea is 17. She was born the day aang died.
So
54 + 17 = 71 years after the ATLA finale.
The upcoming earth bending avatar is set to be about 100 years after the end of Korra. This will put the new avatar in approximately 2030 of their world. The creators of the show said it would be a cyber punk feel.
"What is this, Taylor Swift?" 😂
Makos style actually resembles and may be based off Mike Tysons peekaboo style which uses weaving head movement and footwork to slip punches and counter punch
I just realized something that I can't talk about til season 3 but I'm making a note now. Airbender Avatar
I shall not tolerate any Bolin disrespect.
First of all, how dare you! Bolin is a hunk! ❤❤ 😉
Bolyn is honestly my favorite character from both avatar series, I really hope you like him soon as in early seasons they treat him quite badly
Did they just say Teenage Drama??? Oh they have no idea what they're in for
there are literally only 4 airbenders in the entire world plus the avatar
Imagine A Team With Aang, Katara, & Toph
Lovin this
5:18 : Yes, thank you! And he gets even more f-boy-ier!!
i love kelvin swiftie haha
It's not really at all fair to say it's Korra's fault that she's 16 and hasn't bent air when literally no other Avatar, besides Aang, has bent another element besides their natural element until after they're 16. And Aang didn't until he was 12, mostly because they told him early and he almost got himself killed. She is literally ahead of every Avatar before her.
I mean, Kyoshi, one of the best Avatars in history, was a horrible Earthbender. So much so she wasn't even on the radar to be the Avatar.
Modern style is quick and hard but you get tired out faster
He said do the thing
All the players had to be knocked back to zone three for them to get the greenlight to advance
The other team got the green light after all 3 fire ferrets were sent back to zone 2.
@@TimberlakeTigerGirl oh right
12:27 God damn... The way you are sitting with one hand on your head like that. Like I already thought you had a cute face and nice personality, now I know you got big arms too... making a guy blush over here...
so the opponents only get to advance when all 3 members go back 1 zone, and if you, at any point manage to knock all 3 players off the ring through the back then the team wins by knockout
I LOVE PRO BENDING!! 😍😍I wish it existed in real life🙌🙌
I watched this when I was 7 and have seen other react to Korra recently. I think the reason why she didn't learn air bending sooner was bc she was busy with the other elements. It's not like she never saw Tenzin growing up training, ig she just prioritized which ones she wanted first. It's not her fault really that she didn't learn air bending earlier, like Tenzin said the hardest one is the opposite of her personality. Korra is hot headed, stubborn so it's obvious fire will be the easiest. Water is also easy due to being apart of the water tribe.
More like the white lotus prioritized for her. We see Korra doesn't have much autonomy. She's told what to do a lot.
Well, she learned every other bending at age 2 for... story reasons. The only reason she didn't learn air bending sooner was ... story reasons.
@@BelfryHexwow, so like everything in every other piece of media ever?
No, it’s stated very clearly that the elements have to be learnt in a very specific order.
Tenzin is Oldest child of 3. A Boy. Burdened by Responsability of Restoring and Keeping Air-nomad culture by his Father. if you want to hear it in Music form look up Encanto's Under Surface song.
tenzin is the youngest
Tenzin is the youngest, it's Bumi, Kya and then Tenzin
@@another_julia my bad then. It was too long i watched the show
How did yall not get the rules of pro bending? lol
Korra got knocked back to zone 3, but the brothers hadn't, so enemy team can't advance yet untill all 3 are pushed back.
Knocking off all players = winning
It was pretty simple
I hope you'd release a reaction video with 2 or 3 episodes in it but that'a just me.😂
Never expected a Taylor Swift mention on this channel. You should check her in free time, she's amazing songwriter and very versatile, she tried like every genre that exist. If you listen with open mind i'm sure you can find some jams.
I need episode 3
The first round was a tie because of time out. But I'm pretty sure it should have been a tie but I don't even know atp
bolín better than mako lmao
Although I like personally love boxing as a sport, I didn't like what they did to bending for this series - where all elements were stripped of any individuality and it's basically just boxing (minus tenzin).
Maybe it was easier to animate - or cheaper because they didn't need to hire a martial arts master to give life to all the different bending styles through different martial arts. My girlfriend back in college was blind and she actually learned Praying-mantis kung fu growing up from a young age (before avatar last airbender even existed) which is the same martial-arts style that Toph's earth bending mimics, because it actually had deep roots to blind practitioners, and some styles were supposedly created by blind martial artists.
It's a little sad that you don't really need to really train or find a master because all it boils down to is - all you need to do to bend any element.. is just punch. Air, water, fire, earth - it's all the same and it doesn't matter, just punch.
y’all dissin my man bolin… smh
In walks the internet's favorite Himbo!! Hope you guys keep an open mind when judging Korra
Cute guys, cute show, cute reaction, what else?
The pacing in the first season is really wacky because they were only greenlit for this single season, meaning they effectively had to stuff _all_ the characters' personal arcs and fit _as much_ of everything else as possible into 12 episodes. To put that into perspective, they had half the length of a single season from AtLA to tell the overarching narrative of AtLA.
The Avatar team is talented. They know their shit. If they were given the go-ahead from the get-go, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind they'd cooked something amazing.
Might be better for thumbnails to use screenshots of Korras face more clearly since the trainjng gear is less recognizable
I hate Korra's personality, but that's why I love the show. Weird lol
I love Korra’s personality and that’s why I love the show lmao
TLOK Season 1 is a bit of a slow burn for me, but watching it fully will be worth it. S2 - S4 are *chef's kiss* enjoy!
Tenzin is more like Katara not like Aang lol
Taylor Swift 🤣
you giving me blue balls for days waiting for black clover upload....WHEENNNNNAAAAHH?
You need to survive another 24 hours
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I do like to compare this season to ATLA season 1. I loved everything about Aang and his adventures but I never really enjoyed the first season as much as seasons 2 and 3. I think Korra has that feel also. The first season is slower but you get a feel for the characters and the plot of how the show is going to go. Just stick with it please
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