User blog comment:Neowitch/668 - Pet Axolotl/@comment-3119203-20120523162512/@comment-4820500-20120523200650

@PX if you want to put it that way then that would mean zoro's flying slashes are just glorified versions of his old moves & not even as glorified as say the red hawk compared to the bullet considering that his slashes are exactly the same just stronger while red hawk is a move that cause an explosion in/on the enemies body which is completely different from what gum gum bullet did. As for Luffy "almost dying" from the shark bite, it wasnt so much the bite that hurt & almost killed him it was his loss of blood because he didnt give his wound a chance to close before he decided to ape shit on giant boat.

As for him training and using gear 2nd now means that it probably doesnt hack away at his life whenever he uses it since now he can control it. & do you really expect Luffy to go all out showing amazing moves when they are barely in the new world. if he did have to go all out this early in the new world then his training really would have been pointless.