Pressure Slash

Pressure Slash is an Elemental Bending technique crafted by Akeno Izanami.

Overview
Based upon real-life principles, the Pressure Slash creates a highly-pressurized blade of water, wind, or ice. Using this technique, Akeno can slice through steel and fabrics with ease. It's simple, but highly effective. By creating a high-pressure jet of water or wind between her hands, Akeno can add another layer of danger to her hand-to-hand combat. By creating fine ice particles within the water jet, Akeno can enhance this technique for an even sharper blade. Akeno can choose to keep the blade restrained between her hands, or she can release it as a projectile. When acting as a projectile, the Pressure Slash loses its sharpness the further it travels, eventually dissipating into nothing but a faint breeze and/or a splash of water. Currently, the Pressure Slash's effective range is roughly 5 meters (around 16 feet). Akeno's limits on this Technique are as follows:
 * "I must cut someone or something, or I will take double the damage that strike should have dealt."
 * "My hands must remain in line with each other to activate this technique, or my wrists will break."

Trivia

 * This technique is based on real life water-based pressure cutters. The Ice variant is specifically based on the CryoJet cutting mechanism.