Board Thread:Boruto: Naruto the Movie/@comment-26010916-20150722020206/@comment-3568954-20150722022834

i highly doubt it. as he doesn't have the byakugan if he has awakened it Its clearly not activated as byakugan means all seeing white eye and there are no protruding veins. so no gentle fist.

even if he can do it. using gentle fist with out the byakugan activated isn't the most effective use of your abilities

just because you can see an air palm like technique doesn't mean its Eight trigrams air palm or any gentle fist technique he could have simply saw his mother or aunt or any other hyuga practice with the air palm and decided Hey i want a technique like that. and went out and developed it. notice he is also using said palm to strike the face. in many martial arts you are trained to strike the face with an open palm and the body with a closed fist

also when you look at video and pics of the actual Eight Trigrams air palm there is a visible display of air here you don't see that you simply see his hand a couple inches away from Shikadai's face and his face rippling from an apparent air palm, another thought could be that its simply that Boruto's strike has so much force that it has a ripple of energy from his hand, kind of like how you see martial artists putting out a candle by punching toward it. well in many eastern martial arts of old there is a tradition of belief that one can direct there kinetic energy out of there body and attack with out making physical contact it could be very well that he is simply producing so much kinetic energy(energy in motion) that the space between them was rippled

now its most likely some type of air palm but just because he has a technique like the air palm is not definitive Proof that he is using the gentle fist as Kishimoto stated that he forgot to give boruto and himawari the byakugan and then said that if naruto and hinata have a third child that child will have byakugan.

and since we do not see him using the byakugan in this picture this must mean he likely isn't actually using the gentle fist at least not at that moment