Talk:Gaara VS Toph/@comment-25517437-20150110182721/@comment-25517437-20150110224006

It's really the Chakra from his dead mother that is infused into the sand. Toph also doesn't have much experience with moving sand, because she doesn't spend a lot of time in sandy places. Sand bending is hard for any earthbender to do, only benders that live in sandy places learn to master it. But Toph is use to much more solid earth. She got better at it near the end, but never moved the amount of sand that Gaara can move. Also never moved sand with the speed and velocity that Gaara's sand has.

So while Toph only moved enough to make a small "sandcastle" (a.k.a model of BA Sing SE) ---> http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6e3g0vAtu1rzbxiio4_1280.jpg

Gaara moves enough to stop some very big ass meteors. --->  http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.607990249373174115&pid=1.7