"Well, you've accomplished wings," he says. "But if you want to take them flying with you, I'm thinking you'd better be able to shape them very accurately and consistently. So, practice. And I still recommend asking your earthbending instructor if she has any thoughts on bending with arbitrary movements and the difference between conscious and intuitive understanding of how to do it, and I'll get a big mirror put in hopefully before our next lesson so you can see your wings properly and don't have to guess how well they live up to what you're going for."
He smiles.
"If you want to do extra practice between lessons, I recommend the fire-following trick to practice reading energy flows, and I recommend not getting too big or fancy with it until you've had a chance to practice the wings in front of a mirror. It doesn't take much uncertainty about where exactly your fire is going to produce some pretty spectacular accidents, and the thing about these fancy fire-shaping tricks is that unlike conventional fire blasts, a lot of it is happening outside your field of view."
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Date: 2015-08-03 12:55 am (UTC)He smiles.
"If you want to do extra practice between lessons, I recommend the fire-following trick to practice reading energy flows, and I recommend not getting too big or fancy with it until you've had a chance to practice the wings in front of a mirror. It doesn't take much uncertainty about where exactly your fire is going to produce some pretty spectacular accidents, and the thing about these fancy fire-shaping tricks is that unlike conventional fire blasts, a lot of it is happening outside your field of view."