You’re using Korra as an example when this is just her fighting style. Bending still feels like a martial art in LOK

Are we really saying "all lazy" when the martial arts are being displayed right in front of our faces???? What a sick delusion

People like to hate on LOK to an unhinged degree

Calling it garbage isn't real criticism. They literally elevated the martial arts in LOK. Very pretty on the eyes

Kuvira hand to hand so good to watch, this and zaheers airbending such a creative use of their respective bending

Goddamn Kuvira was putting BTA on everybody walking this season 😮‍💨

wrapping metal around your body while fighting against another metal bender🤦🏽‍♂️

this fight is fire but,so crazy they made them able to zip around metal like that, its never gonna land cause the victim is just gonna die😭cant have that happening in a kids show. also pretty dumb to fight metal benders wearing metal armor... why dont they just crush you with it

Again it’s not that this isn’t martial arts. It’s that in the first series was very consistent with which styles of kung fu each character and grinding style adhered to.

Those are exceptions though 🥲

I think the point their getting at is that the movements aren’t as analog as they are in the original series, which could be seen as the influence of the philosophies of the White Lotus (namely Uncle Iroh), who understood the underlying relations of bending styles