"Looks good to me," he says. "So practice that a few times, don't try to firebend with it, but pay attention like you're trying to read the energy flow in a strike you're throwing. See if you pick anything up, fire-wise - any sense of how the element reacts to what you're doing. You might not, for a while, and if you get frustrated I have a few tricks to try to get at that skill a different way, but first let's see if you need them or not."