Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25093611-20160304230401/@comment-734582-20160305182002

GreatestSin wrote: but that wasnt the explanation in the naruto-verse, they can stand on it because the use their chakra as some kind of barrier, so shouldnt they be able to use it on air too and "stand" on it? I got the impression this barrier was simply a form of "hardening" or binding the water, so you wouldn't sink. But air has even less restricted movement than water, if you bound your feet to the air below you, the rest would just flow around it and you'd still fall.