You also see more of their ability to turn aside or avoid lethal blows. For example, when Tifa fights Loz in the church, he attempts to basically gouge her eyes out with his claw. They show her take the blow and then her hand sparks as she shakes it off - she placed her glove in front of her face to protect it just before the blow struck.

The same can be applied to Cloud getting shot. He's so instinctively trained to not let himself be killed that he tilted his head in the exact angle to minimize the blow.