Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25093611-20160304230401/@comment-734582-20160306131058

GreatestSin wrote: but wouldnt the same happen with water, a sea moves but the shinobi on the water will stay at the same place, or a stormy ocean, the users feet should go in all directions but they dont, They would essentially stand on a single slab of water, not separate ones under every foot. GreatestSin wrote: it is true that the chakra "binds" the user to the surface but it isnt fixed, if the air current hanges the shinobi should still stay at the same place Again, density. Humans are pretty close to floating in water. Chakra at their feet just enables it, as the salt in the dead sea does in real life. Of course standing on the dead sea is really hard because it's extremely unstable to stand on liquid. Chakra merely makes the surface as if solid. Then Archimedes law of displacement ensures about ~80 kg =~ 80liters of water has to be displaced to make up for the Shinobi's weight. This is about 8cm of water for a square meter slab.

Air is about a thousand times less dense. For a shinobi to stand on air, they would have to manipulate a gargantuan volume of air.