Although low in rank, this technique allows you to evade incoming attacks while you're in mid-air. As long as the incoming attack is not a very large scaled one, you'll successfully be able to change your direction while in mid-air to evade. This technique could also serve to create a dust scene if aimed at the ground. However, this technique doesn't allow you to achieve flight if you were already on ground.
This one is more offensive-based compared to the other ones you've been taught. You create a stream of wind that is powerful enough to send rocks and even your opponent into the air and damage them by using the rocks you've sent flying. Sending your opponent off of the ground actually puts them in a disadvantage as their movements would be restricted. There are also certain techniques which require ground contact, and because you send them flying, they would be unable of performing those specific techniques.
It would be rather difficult to apply a sealing tag on them while they're being sent away from you by the wind and also because there are rocks that can probably block your way.
You're correct when it comes to shape manipulation, but nature manipulation is different from what you described. As I said earlier, nature manipulation is when you mold any elemental chakra. Bascially, it's when you turn your raw chakra into an elemental chakra (in our case: wind) before starting to actually use it for your intended jutsu. Nature manipulation happens before shape manipulation in elemental techniques, otherwise, it wouldn't be an elemental jutsu. In the case of our current jutsu, nature and shape manipulation would be applied like this:
Kinda similar to our previous technique but this one particularly focuses your wind chakra around the bladed weapons instead of making a large gale. However, this technique allows you to manipulate the bladed weapons to attack your opponent in a more versatile manner since you can control each bladed weapon individually rather than having all of them move in the same direction.
This technique requires you to perform 5 hand seals and you would then manipulate your wind chakra to create a sudden and powerful gust. This gust can travel to long ranges and is powerful enough to even knock down a large tree. It basically can take down anything on your line of sight. There's also an alternative way of usage where you release a small blast that can be ignited with flames.
You shoot out a sphere of air from your mouth that blows your target and small objects around them backwards upon impact, which would create some distance between yourself and your target if they were too close.
This technique was shown to be combined with Fire Release: Running Fire in the first Naruto Movie. You start by creating small tornadoes around a target. These tornadoes will then clash together to create a larger hurricane. When used in combination with a fire technique, the technique will be strengthened as it turns into a massive flaming hurricane. Keep in mind that this technique can only be used at short range.
Yet another technique that was shown to be combined with Fire Release: Running Fire in the first Naruto Movie (the combo was used against Naruto when he was trapped inside an earth-made corridor). This one, however, is a projectile-type attack. So after performing the required handseals, you release a vortex of wind from your hands while aiming it at your target, pushing him back while giving him cuts.
For normal users, this only allows them to defend against C-Rank and below wind techniques by releasing a slicing gust of wind that neutralizes it. If you have Wind release as your first speciality then it'll also allow you to defend against B-Rank wind techniques. It can only be used at short range so you'll just time the jutsu so that it'll clash with the enemy's wind technique once it is within your short range (0 to 5 meters from yourself).
