User blog comment:DarkSkullPirates/Best Athlete in One Piece/@comment-4783583-20120329233118/@comment-4783583-20120329235155

well zoro and brook both can do martial arts, though they remain swordsmen primarily, however the only true martial artist of the crew is sanji. who always fights with out weapons, haki (this might chance)  or any other power. Then fencing has an unique place in japanese history since it is the first  foreign sword style that really got a following there when it was introduced and it baffled all swordsmen that encountered it since it was so different from anything that they have ever know. The fact that Brook is an fencer really shows you it is an japanese and that oda knows his history and can bring variation to his story. Brook is the fencer and zoro is the classic japanese swordsmen, they will not mix.