User blog comment:ChiroSamai94/One things that's been bothering me.../@comment-99.118.149.86-20110720032452

in the two years apart, it looks like they have built up, and familiarized themselves with the techniques that they had already previously used. for example, luffy was able to activate gear second, sanji and the same with sanji and his diablo leg thing-a-ma-jigger. zoro also became much more capable, by being able to cut through the pacifista, were as before he could only cut the clothing they were wearing. so pretty much they just became better at using the skills they already had.