"I didn't become a master in any of the disciplines. And I didn't really aspire to that, to be honest. At least not at first. Later, when I turned twenty, I decided to do something where the goal was not fighting, but development and mastery. The choice fell on Wushu again. I practiced for three years before I died and was born again in this world. However, there, in the basement, I remembered all my Wushu training and started repeating it, simultaneously adjusting waterbending movements to my movements, and where the movements were too sharp, I replaced them with smoother ones myself. Waterbending almost literally helped me smooth out the rough edges of my skills, which were almost nonexistent. But gradually I remembered and repeated everything I had learned, all the movements and Taolu (the equivalent of katas for Wushu), gradually adjusting all this to waterbending. I didn't know then if this could be classified as martial arts, but I was getting tired and after a couple of months, for the first time I decided to look in the mirror made of ice, and saw myself. Muscles were growing, body flexibility too. In general, with desire, probably any bender can become very flexible, strong, and so on, but for waterbenders, flexibility becomes almost the best. Bending greatly helps in physical development if you set your mind to it. And water also helps to recover faster. Also, by the way, an interesting thing. At some point, when my whole body hurt terribly, covered in bruises, I was lying in the bathtub full of clean cool water, and with all my heart I wanted it all to go away quickly. What do you think happened? Right, I felt itching in my body and in the places where I had bruises. And when I looked at myself, I saw how the water literally healed all that I had talked about, all the injuries. But what didn't get into the water, alas, didn't heal, so I submerged myself several times, holding my breath. You know, after that, it became easier to train, because every evening I took a bath and fully recovered, shaking off the fatigue of training."
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