Watch the fight again, he was also punching through it. And if I remember right, Kimimaro punched through it too. Sandman is stronger than Tsunade, he would crush that sand shield and Gaara.
Gaara strains considerably when controlling sand that is not from his gord, and Sandman has total control over his own body, figure it out.
Doesn't really matter what you saw in the anime...what matters is what's in the Manga. It was also described in the ANIME that he was moving faster than it could form.
Pwned in da butt AGAIN son.
Does it REALLY make sense that pulling off the leg weights some how makes Lee punch harder?
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Takes fairly high end matter manip or specialized equipment to take over elementals like Sandman. Same with Hydroman, Klaw and others.
Sandman has the ability to condense the sand into fists on a class 100 level, or disperse it into clouds while maintaining control over every grain.
Gaara can't win. Chakra-infusion might stop Sandman from taking the sand, it might not. I'm willing to gamble that Gaara will run out of gas before Sandman. Since Sandman's stamina limit is near non-existant outside of water. And, even if Gaara went to Shukaku form, he still can't hurt Marko.
Worse, if Sandman takes control of that sand, he could potentially absorb Shukaku's sand and thereby his powers.
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The f*ck?
Kimmimaro's hardest attack could barely piece through the sand shield, and Gaara's regular sand sand withstood an explosion large enough to destroy a city. Mushroom cloud and all.
And Gaara can control normal sand with his chakra. Sandman is composed of normal sand. Gaara can control him with his chakra.
If they're facing off on a beach then Gaara cab essentially just make him walk into the water. QED.
And aside from all that, what happens if Gaara decides to make his ultimo-sand ball like, five hundred feet in the air? He's perfectly safe at that distance.
1. And by feats, Sandman is not only stronger than Kimmimaro, but stronger than friggin Tsunade as well. Gaara's sand shielded the entire village from an explosion, sure, but you forgot to add the fact that Gaara has to use up ALOT of his chakra to do it. Also, that isn't his normal shield which comes to his aid, that was a shield he had to manually create in a despiration act to save his people. And bullcrap, there was no Mushroom Cloud, hell, the explosion wasn't even near as big as the whole village. Unless that village is really small.
So, going by the feats of Gaara's PERSONAL shield, Sandman demolishes it.
3. So because Gaara can control inanimate sand with no will or control over itself, Gaara can control living sand with total control over its own body and any sand he touches? Fail logic is fail. Shit, why don't I just assume that Gaara's sand will be absorbed by Sandman while I am at it.
4. Well there are two things that could happen.
If there is alot of sand around in this fight, Sandman grows really really big and swipes him down.
Not sure if he did this in the comics, but in the movie he can fly.
And besides...What is Gaara gonna do from up there? Run away?