When you need to enhance speed, you don't only enhance your legs.Semantics. What Sakura, Tsunade and every other Ninja does to enhance their strength is the same. They gather chakra in the area they want to enhance. The only difference is, Sakura and Tsunade are master medical Ninja thus the extent they can perform this is far beyond that of other shinobi.
Databook 2 blatantly states that Tsunade's ability to gather chakra into her fists and fingers is why she is capable of lifting Gamabunta's blade. Sakura's ability is the same as Tsunade's, stated in the Manga, shown in the Manga,You must be registered for see links
So either you attempt to argue that Sakura isn't using Tsunade's ability or you concede to the fact that Tsunade's ability is what lets her lift the Dosu, thus Sakura can do the same, thus CES (or whatever you want to call it because semantics aren't important) enhances all forms of strength, not just striking.
Bold is exactly why your logic doesn't work. You said Hinata has the advantage because 'Sakura is a linear fighter and Hinata's style is more complex'. Yet if I try to say that for Neji and Tsunade, I'd be wrong. Meaning you have to switch up your logic. Nothing is wrong with the comparison. Your reason for why Hinata can do what you are claiming just doesn't hold up. If the logic can't be universally applied to all scenarios no matter the variables then the logic is flawed somewhere.
No, it wouldn't, because that is how all her strikes work. Chakra is gathered and released. She doesn't gather more chakra just when she jumps, and less when she doesn't. That wouldn't make any sense. It'd make more sense to do the inverse.
Body Flicker Technique (Shunshin no Jutsu)
Ninjutsu, D-rank, Supplementary
Users: Gaara, Hatake Kakashi, et al
A movement technique with extreme speed like a gust of wind!!
Appearing along with the wind, disappearing like the wind: the ninja’s instantaneous movement technique. This super fast movement is almost impossible to grasp with the naked eye. If seen by an ordinary person, it would seem as if the user has teleported… In reality, the user has vitalized his body with chakra and moved at super speeds. The amount of chakra used up differs depending on the distance and elevation of their stopping point in comparison to the starting point.
The cloud of sand dances in the wind…
Haku’s and Kakashi’s Body Flicker. Dancing leaves and disappearing in an instant like mist.
There are many variations of the Body Flicker for the various villages and user. Gaara’s use includes the Sand Body Flicker. There are also the Mist Body Flicker, Water Body Flicker, and Leaf Body Flicker, among many others.
Ninjutsu, D-rank, Supplementary
Users: Gaara, Hatake Kakashi, et al
A movement technique with extreme speed like a gust of wind!!
Appearing along with the wind, disappearing like the wind: the ninja’s instantaneous movement technique. This super fast movement is almost impossible to grasp with the naked eye. If seen by an ordinary person, it would seem as if the user has teleported… In reality, the user has vitalized his body with chakra and moved at super speeds. The amount of chakra used up differs depending on the distance and elevation of their stopping point in comparison to the starting point.
The cloud of sand dances in the wind…
Haku’s and Kakashi’s Body Flicker. Dancing leaves and disappearing in an instant like mist.
There are many variations of the Body Flicker for the various villages and user. Gaara’s use includes the Sand Body Flicker. There are also the Mist Body Flicker, Water Body Flicker, and Leaf Body Flicker, among many others.
If strength is needed to be enhanced, i seriously fail to see how the muscles would be left out. Lifting especially would require muscles in the arms not just the fists right?
What Tsunade and Sakura do is more akin to an enhanced punch because they concentrate chakra to their fists. But Tsunade already has immense natural strength something her stat says and something it looks like she tells Madara its the only thing she got from her senju lineage. [
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]..and that's why physical strength related feats of hers shouldn't be ascribed to Sakura imo... Your comparison is between p1 Neji and Tsunade who is tiers above him in everything... Its an unfair matchup comparison or not.. But Sakura isn't... greater than Hinata in speed and what not? Possibly.. but obviously not out of sight superior than. If Sakura punches, Hinata parries her arm.
I never said Sakura would jump.... i meant if Sakura punches, Hinata jumps outwards from the impact point.