User blog comment:Ricizubi/Luffy's Evolution and why becoming pirate king is going to be quite a storytelling challenge/@comment-66.194.72.49-20180420181612/@comment-7606564-20180422175419

I assume turning the surrounding envirnoment into rubber. A lot of awakening appeared to actually affect the surroundings rather than just the individual. Think of a forest as becoming a pinball game with the trees being bumpers that attacks can bounce off of.