Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1930928-20200816130234/@comment-39350828-20200816144205

The eight gates are by default closed. Certain people trained to be able to open them. If they were sent back to their closed state once again, couldn't they just be reopened? I mean, normally when they close tenketsu the person with the closed tenketsu can't reopen them but every time that's happened it hasn't been to someone who trained in being able to open their tenketsu. However, if they closed off the tenketsu in the chakra pathways that are directly connected to the gates, then I don't see why that wouldn't effectively be the same as stopping them from using the eight gates.