[ ...okay that's the trick she normally shows people too and it is AWESOME TYVM, but probably isn't useful to gauge what they actually do. ]

I don't think you know enough about us and what we do to get it, then. But airbending isn't about a front-on fight like you're thinking, probably. It's about using the flow of other people's movements against them, but also about not needing to do that.

[ She's grown up with this philosophy, and can at least attempt to explain it - although in terms of "what does it do" it might boil down to "dodging the crap out of stuff and being annoyingly acrobatic" ]