[@McHaggis] oops, sorry about that, I meant spears lol.

Well I did plan to make him 60+ years old. Let's say he spent 10 years mastering each that's more than enough. But anyway I was kinda mixing 2 characters.

Basically he is a master sand bender and master with hand to hand combat. Though I was never planning to focus much on earth bending. One core earth-bending skill he has is to crumble rock of any size. If crumbled enough it forms into sand which he can use. I mean to crumble a rock to a particle, I thought that that required some mastery*. And the other one is to compress sand hard enough to form rock objects like weapons(spears) which he has mastery of. But otherwise he has no control over rock in it's fully hard rocky state.

Also you know...Toph learned sand bending almost completely on her own. And she was just a blind child passing by. Imagine a visitor staying in the desserts for over 5 years. Given, my character was born there but you get the point.