Talk:Earth Release

Chakra changes
What happens to chakra in Earth Release? Is it ever exactly explained how it manipulates Earth? Fire, Wind, and Lightning seemed to be thoroughly explained.--GoDai (talk) 00:36, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * By sending chakra into earth, or by changing chakra into mud and spitting it out.--Deva 27 (talk) 00:43, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

How is it different in nature to normal chakra? And what is the difference between that and the Iwagakure Kinjutsu?--GoDai (talk) 00:52, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think GoDai means the method used to learn it. Like the grinding and sharpening of wind chakra. The only thing known on earth chakra itself is that it changes the composition of things. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:11, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Aside from Earth Release: Earth Spear, where does it say that in the manga? --Thomas Finlayson (talk) 10:23, May 14, 2010 (UTC)

Effect of lightening release
I admit that this may be too much speculation, or too much interest in Naruto, but I would like to find out how exactly lightning jutsu effects earth jutsu; water-fire is easy to understand, and we can grasp wind-fire, but lightning is still an unknown. I contacted a science teacher about lightning in regards to rocks and dirt (the founation of earth jutsu) since he was an Earth Science expert, and I got (edited down): Lightning can travel through rock short distances. When lightning hits dirt and sand it will fuse the sand grains together to make fulgurite. The ground contains so many electrons, that energy is transferred very quickly into the rock when it is struck and little change in the rock itself occurs since rock is a poor conductor, especially when dry so if it travels any distance in rock it will heat it up. Google fulgurite
 * Any idea how we can use this? --Thomas Finlayson (talk) 10:21, May 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * We already know about fulgurites, it was used in someone's theory on Crystal. Earth jutsu commonly utilizes the ground as a resource, true. However, many think Lightning should be weak to Earth because it grounds it. The important thing they forget is that Lightning jutsu maintains control over the electricity, so it cannot be grounded unless the Lightning user releases control. The grounding effect rather gives an advantage to the Lightning user, as he can now easily cannel focused Lightning chakra through the Earth, either hardening mud or shattering rock. --GoDai (talk) 18:40, May 16, 2010 (UTC)