The Ninja's Special | MythBusters | Season 5 Episode 10 | Full Episode

[@yanxin]

'paint on.. paint off.. such is the mysterious way of the former movie prop maker who for no particular reason wants his water shoes to look worn in'

[@TheIlgazm]

Adam calling Jamie a silent walrus lol

[@MrSuckeragi]

R.I.P. Grant, always my favorite. As a fellow Asian, I am happy he upheld the way of the ninja in this episode.

[@michaelmayhem350]

Grant is lame, at least Jessie went out with a bang

[@gmsp123]

@@michaelmayhem350 Dude...

[@yokikokudou]

​@@michaelmayhem350 YOU'RE RUDE!!! Grant Imahara have greater contributions to science & mankind!!!

[@hhhsks]

RIP Grant. I was so sad when I heard the news. Grew up watching him make science fun

[@thunderlighting2006]

the pool owner in the background laughing makes me happy lol

[@Zeuseus6609]

Always loved that grant had the best clap force, cos usually it was Tori who did a lot of the physical stuff.

[@nathanielpoppycock9827]

Yeah, I never did understand how Grant was able to fit that thing into a pair of jeans.

[@JETHO321]

What is clap force?

[@devintignor9239]

@@JETHO321bend over and I'll show ya

[@mytube001]

"Don't I look like silent death?" :D :D :D

[@crazygamer889]

Rip Grant :(

[@Boycott_Wendys]

Rip Ozzy

[@gundarsmiks4889]

Grant is unalive?!

[@TheCosmicPizza]

​@@gundarsmiks4889You can also use the very convenient word made to refer to that, you know? Dead?

[@gundarsmiks4889]

@@TheCosmicPizza you mean dead?! Yeah... I still didnt check for myself. Thats why this is still going! So he, stoped breathing?!

[@TheCosmicPizza]

@@gundarsmiks4889 True, it was dead not death. 2 a.m thinking gone wrong

[@MNovater]

12:54 I always wondered if these are more designed to avoid sinking into the mud “water” of a rice paddy…

[@nighth00d95]

My only question regarding catching the arrow is why would they be trying to shoot/catch an arrow point blank? Their pre-test tennis ball distance was more accurate.

[@ryanwatt9668]

this exactly

[@MarkAspen_]

And they focus only on speed, when it is actually more about synchronization. and... just put on yt - man catches arrow...

[@whatisthis__95]

The distance is irrelevant since they are sychronizing it by other means

[@ryanwatt9668]

@@whatisthis__95 arrow is gonna slow down over distance so..

[@robinst-pierre9600]

Look up their second ninja special.

[@Mustis91]

lol they let the ninja guy come to their workshop just to close his hand once 😂

[@terraincognita3749]

I actually suspect they did a lot of things when he came around. Multiple shots, perhaps some other things that didn't make it into the show, and who knows, maybe some paperwork and preparatory discussions for visits by the Mythbusters teams to his dojo? But it was funny that we only saw him come in for a single shot 😂

[@rjspires]

I'm always amazed by the what is cut from the UK edits of the show.

[@NathanBenedict45]

Really? The UK version of the show was censored? Why?

[@rjspires]

@@NathanBenedict45 Not censored just some bits cut for time, like the Tory fixing the sword grabbing rig. We have 3 ad brakes but they can be longer than the US. I have found a lot of episodes are the same but we had different voice over guy, but had mostly the same script.

[@yokikokudou]

​@@rjspires Adam savage explains it in his YT channel "Tested" that MYTHBUSTER is edited to fill a 40min airtime but International cut is 30min cut. Adam even said UK Version requires the Funny Canadian narrator Robert Lee be replaced as they seem to rearrange the videos sequence.

[@rjspires]

@@yokikokudou only a short live BBC version was 30 minutes. The Discovery channel broadcasted the show and it was 44-46 minutes long.

[@thetokugawaclan1003]

the mizugumo were actually used as floaters, they werent strapped to the feet it was more like a primitive life preserver (those red rings you find on boats)

[@ambulocetusnatans]

That's possible, but I was thinking they might work for a marsh or swamp. Like the way certain birds can walk over lilly pads.

[@thetokugawaclan1003]

@@ambulocetusnatans that has been theorized too

[@ennanitsua]

I was wondering what they were actually intended for. Thanks!

[@gabrielmoreno6870]

“Looks good homeboy” Grant was truly a gangsta at heart RIP! 🫡🫡

[@Octovisuals]

Love this show, thanks for posting some episodes!

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Even though it's gel, the way the sword sliced the palms of the hands was nasty.

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

Sure hits different after I've accidentally sliced off the tip of a finger with a food processor

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

@@antonioscendrategattico2302 Bloody hell that's awful! Does the food processor still work?

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

@@MadHax-wt5tl Hah. Probably deserved that one, tbh. It wasn't exactly a smart move on my part even of I didn't just stick my finger into spinning blades for no reason, it was that I was pushing a cucumber into the feed tube and it went down quicker than expected.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

@@antonioscendrategattico2302 Sounds to me like another typical case of evil cucumber attack. Fortunately it sounds like you defeated it with only minor injuries. The world salutes your bravery.

[@joshuasmit5137]

Big myth perpetuated from the start... Ninja were never a special form or class of warrior. A ninja was simply someone trained to conduct espionage or spy-craft. Some ninja were not trained in combat at all, while some ninja were samurai

[@Ben-no4lz]

At least someone did their research! Samurai was a Social Class you were born into, whereas Ninja was a profession you trained for.

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Yes, we have Google too

[@ScottFunk-us6ro]

It's more than that. Ninjas never wore black. They instead dressed the same as everyone else. That all black thing was an invention of Japanese theater.

[@timbert4672]

Bike chain, that’s ingenious, I think Jamie may have just solved a little conundrum I was having about something I wanted to design.

[@Alchrat]

Nice. What are you trying to design?

[@timbert4672]

@@Alchrat A litter picker that actually works, I'd already modelled one on the hand but I hadn't thought to use bike chain.

[@Games_and_Music]

@@timbert4672 Good luck, but i do hope that you fail, haha. As i am a litter picker and i thought that our job was safe from AI for a while, as it is much more difficult to get AI/robots to effeciently pick litter, as opposed to have AI teach school/university courses.

[@roserichardson9480]

The sword rebound is such a funny moment.

[@binhho2532]

I miss all of these!!! As if they never stopped.

[@LOL-gn5oh]

> Episode is about Japanese ninjas. > Use stock footage from Chinese movies and background music with Chinese instruments. 💀

[@hashankatagoda7272]

and the shuriken is made in Taiwan

[@BradTheThird]

Meh... Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, what are these?

[@FangGuard]

That's Chinese ninjassss lol

[@thunderlighting2006]

what ever footage is cheapest lol

[@the_philosopher_o_philosophos]

Yeah nah, there are world records set one after another on catching arrows. compound bows in point blank is not exactly what was done in the pre 1800 era.

[@RandomnessChannelYT]

thanks for uploading full episode!

[@dinomarinovic5241]

two things, from too close of a range (because inside of that range it would be quicker to punch or throw something at the bow user rather then trying to catch the arrow) and second people would usually also move their full hand from the shoulder down instead of just fingers, but still i think it would be very very hard if not impossible

[@andyking957]

nope in japanes archery they would use the bow as a lance, even afixing a tanto to the top with the string if time allowed. And achers of all cultures always had secondary weapons to finish you off... And a good shoot could skewer you with quite alot of arrows as you run towards him. I bet your were not good for melee fight anymore.

[@dinomarinovic5241]

@@andyking957 im just saying in close range at that distance you are throwing something rather than catching an arrow Sure in a battlefield scenario you will be prepared but a secondary weapon will always be less useful than a main one. And if you would take a secondary weapon then the purpose succeeded since you are no longer using bow.

[@thestraydog]

​@andyking957 I've never met an Eastern European named "Andy King" 😂 I would keep up with the English lessons

[@thomaskeithjones6431]

They remind me of two old cartoon characters that I luv’d as a kid …….. Woody wood pecker (Adam) and Wally walrus (Jamie) 😆

[@nekolastkage]

First of all no one can catch an arrow with that distance.😂

[@Boycott_Wendys]

I can 😊

[@samuelgarrod8327]

What's your Secondly then?

[@Max.E.Danganan]

18:51 that ninja scream 🤣🤣🤣

[@AdamHolland-Adz]

I love whenever they play with Corn starch

[@UcranianoUKR]

I think the idea of adding little paddles on the water shoes that folded on during forward slide and drop down was a good idea, Adam just needed to improve on his design. I mean we the use same principle with seal skins on skis

[@patrikhjorth3291]

I'm aware of one technique to stop a sword attack with your hand, but it's... a bit different from the myth. It involves stepping close to the sword user as they are starting to draw the sword, and stopping the draw before the sword leaves the sheath. I have of course never seen anyone practice this technique, but it seems plausible to me that it could be the origin of the myth that "Ninja can catch a sword with their bare hand".

[@KoalaTeaGuy]

23:28 Kari pulling Grant's safety goggles on 😸

[@Games_and_Music]

Ahh, so this was that episode. I was recently discussing the episode where they tested a viral video that showed "running on water" and they tested it quite poorly. I knew that they had tried it before, but wasn't aware that the episode was already uploaded. The styrofoam effort wasn't even that bad, if he could add flippers to the side that detract when pushing and expand when moved backwards, as to offset the threadmill effect and actually generate a little bit of forward momentum. But they're more like fat waterskis than footwear, but yeah, a realistic version would also be nowhere close to easy to carry and comfortable footwear, because we're just too heavy and slow to compensate for the small footprint on the surface of water. The cornstarch version is fun though, i wonder if it is somehow possible to walk on water if you can sprinkle a lot of cornstarch in front of you, like a very thin bridge. To sorta create a film on the water that absorbs a lot of the force, but i'm sure it'll break up and go down with you as it is probably way too diluted or powdery still. You probably need a very thick hose that drops cornstarch onto the water and stays connected/unbroken (as to maximize the weight displacement effect through the length of the starch) and you running over it quickly before it sinks and dissolves, not very practical, but maybe possible?

[@Arpin_Lusene]

37:45 One of my favorite moments in the show

[@gerald8573]

"Don't I look like silent death?"

[@SLPFPV]

Adam's ninja shoes should be in the next Austin Powers movie

[@domedsky]

"I think it was the face" lmao

[@ivoryowl]

That cornstarch and water trick would could also work as a fake quicksand effect.

[@space-man313]

Jamie is not an experienced archer with how he was shooting that recurve bow😅. You don’t hold the string back as long as he did because the string doesn’t lock back like a compound bow. You simply pull back on the string while pulling up the bow simultaneously while aiming at the same time and you release the second you’re on target. You shouldn’t be pulling back on the string for any longer than a second and a half.

[@SH3RIFF187]

The Jamie jokes never get old

[@SamWiseGamgee1]

Uses a high power modern compound bow* "Man, these arrows are just too fast!"

[@samyjoseph4798]

My favorite dc show

[@Rockmaster867]

4:45 the classic sound :D

[@hannahlowry503]

18:26 I think it was likely that the kiai helped Grant hit harder. The face was necessary!

[@RussWoodget]

It's unfair to let Adam have all the fun😂 We want to see Jamie slowly sink into that corn starch. Or slowly emerges from it, with his iconic mustache

[@deltalima6703]

If I ever want to learn some "futile combat skills" I will see if that dojo is still around.

[@estrafalario5612]

Stinks of bullshido, yes

[@feranks3211]

pretty sure they meant "feudal" but at first I was pretty confused, too :D

[@Kwauhn.]

The way they left that guy hanging... that was so cold.

[@Soipelez]

18:40 instant regret by Tory lmao

[@clayunderhill1626]

No fr, the way he just slowly tapers off... like come on bro😑

[@parsnipguy2986]

in the end, the arrow ended up slowing down because it shot through the glove, alowing the superspeed robot hand to catch it. i wonder if you should've just put something in your hand like a piece of wood for the arrow to embed itself in your palm

[@HarunSalleh53]

with their BEAR hands..😂😂

[@scarecrowx_x4524]

As far as I understand catching arrows from heavy bows was a common practise for professional warrior archers historicly, and there are people alive today that can catch arrows, Lars Andersen being one example.

[@andyking957]

it is a scam. Try catching arrows from a >40 pounds draw bow with full speed directed at your body not to some distance beside you. I still am waiting for YT videos demonstrating this.

[@scarecrowx_x4524]

@@andyking957 Yeah it depends on the bow ofc. But I wouldn't call it impossible under all circumstances. People have done it, and still do!

[@thatoneguy2274]

lars andersen is pretty much a sham artist, some people who know more about historical archery debunked A LOT of his videos and "trickshots", he uses a VERY low draw weight which is why he can draw so fast while in motion, and why he can catch arrows easily.

[@scarecrowx_x4524]

@@thatoneguy2274 Well, he has been pretty open about not using heavy bows. Also calling catching arrows impossible under all circumstanses is just not right. That being said Lars Andersens tricks may not be as dangerous as they look, but they are still impressive. So is a Magic show.

[@Facebooker413]

I think the water shoes might have been better if there was something to keep it from folding too much and add some air bladders of some sort

[@bohdanherasymenko7569]

38:45 - they don't suck, they displace!

[@stickman69420]

kinda mad they didn't put the ad breaks in the little gaps where ads go on broadcast

[@lasse9118]

right in the back, thats good

[@EGeorgev]

Everybody complaining about the point blank arrow shot, did y'all miss the part where Adam adjusted the firing of the arrow after every attempt? The delay in milliseconds pretty much equals arrow flying longer till it reaches the hand, thus simulating arrow catching from a distance without them actually moving the two rigs irl.

[@BradTheThird]

37:46 Jamie must be made of something else to not burst out laughing at that.

[@aizukiwiart]

水蜘蛛 “mizu-gumo” or “water spiders” were used by sitting on the central wooden section. You would end up sitting waist deep in water, paddling forwards with hands and feet while the ring supported your weight.

[@thomaskeithjones6431]

I always thought ninja’s unrolled a straw mat , then used speed and momentum to get across

[@joballin5986]

34:14 but could robo ninja hand outsmart bullet🗿

[@marcwright8395]

31:31 you wouldn't be standing right in front of the archer lol, try it from a distance

[@Bleats_Sinodai]

I just looked it up outta curiosity, and apparently Mizugomo were not water shoes, but mud shoes! My only question is, why not add a thong like in Geta/Zori shoes to easily slip them on and off? They could slip over Tabi boots pretty easily, all you'd need is a second strap to attach the heel so they don't slip out.

[@ZA-mb5di]

16:21 it is him

[@yamatohime2035]

I always wondered, why there is no hand movements? Because in Chinese dramas generals caught arrows by swinging hand at full speed in perpendicular direction to arrow. XD

[@thai-stylez]

Why are they showing the footages from Chinese movies?

[@danwarrjack]

Fig Newtons 😂 RIP Grant

[@SAChishi]

With speed n light body weight it might be possible to run in water with equipment.

[@yokikokudou]

Ive seen a version of Hyneman of walking in water with cornstarch in an anime "Meitantei Conan" but its made of agar-agar (gelatin powder made from seaweed) In an episode about Onsen Shinegami (Hotspring Deathgod) the murderer added agar-agar in the hotspring & was able to leave the crime scene through the hotspring & create an alibi. The hotspring is a continuous flowing spring water so by the time the police arrive the agar-agar was fully drained out!!! So true it may be that it's impossible for a farmer/ ninja to aquire a large amount of cornstarch but if its made of seaweeds that Japanese sea is abundant with. THIS MYTH SHOULD BE PLAUSIBLE!!!

[@hexgraphics5057]

A Mongolian bow 🏹 is slower than a compound bow

[@andyking957]

it is not about speed but about energy if you are shooting at armoured people. In a real fight you with compound bow against mongols or any warrior with traditional bow the other party will have some free shoots in the time you take aim. And they were longime seasoned warriors... You might shit your pants and just run.

[@maxmeister747]

@@andyking957 speed is energy

[@banishedsojourner]

when you greet the npc's while talking as arthur in red dead redemption: 11:54

[@JosephProsnitz1]

such weird collaboration energy between the hosts.

[@0990ftn]

Recent study revealed mizugumo wasn’t a shoes but more like a tube

[@myrandomlife8881]

23:29 wow helpingher co worker with glases 33:00 fyi, some ppl can catch it but not in point bla k range, so from 10more meters or so thw arrow start to slowing down 😂 47:13 i will do it too 😂😂😂

[@xpndblhero5170]

I don't think the ninja water pads were tied to their feet... They were probably floated on the water and used like ninja lily pads. It's like riding a BMX bike across 4x8 sheets of plywood on water... It's super fun and you can pretty much walk on it easily, just don't stop or start on the sheets because they'll just slide out from under you. Just start running on a solid surface then stride across the sheets and keep going... 😂

[@ZeFFiirs]

22:51

[@Teslaverse]

Okay this bothers me a lot, there are actually videos of People catching Arrows and in this experiment they had a sample group for the speed of 1 person.

[@jamesleduke873]

They address that in the revisit.

[@psychotimo]

trying to catch an arrow mid flight (even though it would be a nice power move) is a bit silly. If you have the time to catch it, you'd have the time to dodge it. If someone is trying to shoot you with a bow, you're better off dodging rather than catching the arrow. sure IF you catch it, it could intimidate the enemy, but catching it a millisecond too late and having the tip a few centimetres in your abdomen (or missing it completely) is a lot less intimidating xP But I'd say it's at the very least plausible (but unlikely) IRL, the test just want fully encompassing. for 1, arrows are ranged weapons, having more range means having more time before the arrow gets there, upping the odds of actually catching it ( even tho you SHOULD use that time to dodge xP). And a second major point is that this hand is static and tries to just use grip strength, IRL your arm would move, either trying to push the arrow to the side to redirect its energy, or moving along with it to slow it down a bit more gradually.

[@Ben-no4lz]

Check out Lars Anderson - he’s practiced so much he can now catch a flying arrow while jumping & fire it back from his own bow before landing again.

[@bjornwall455]

Thx butiful Lovley

[@Wings_of_foam]

Adam has zero physical coordination and his balance is like a rock on a needle.

[@ducknetic]

I hope this Guy has the rights to American Chopper aswell and uploads full episodes on yt. So hard to find all the episodes somewhere.

[@Asmuk]

Fiberboard + water? Can't imagine why it did sink. What about trying something more traditional and local, like an actual light and proper wood (Paulownia, for example)?

[@zandemen]

Something missing from this show is a professional athlete to do a lot of the testing. On every episode. if it were up tot he crew it would be easy to do some testing and confirm that it is physically impossible to hit a fastball thrown at 98mph with a baseball abt. Quick, build a superhuman machine!

[@BrazilHawks]

about catching an arrow, mt Anthony Kelly .

[@samdiego1965]

I don’t think they tested the arrow catch properly. They’re shooting the arrow at point blank. They should’ve shot the arrow form about 30 feet away

[@frankdobsonjr.464]

The one with the arrow is not busted because there's video out there of a white guy back in the 80s or 90s he was on the TV show and he caught an arrow out of mid-air

[@LuxiBelle]

That is 1.7 million calories of cornstarch

[@Dayvit78]

Is this the official channel? Why are there only 15k subscribers? This show was awesome.

[@nickthematcher]

Could anyone please tell what song is used in the background throughout the episode? At 48:10 and the very end

[@hanbill]

37:01 the accent is killing me

[@Bubble8ee]

What the heck was that???!!! XD 42:57

[@NihonKaikan]

That “dojo” is laughingly bad.

[@yunkozane1807]

Im sorry, did you think this is a reddit comment section?

[@DiegoDeSimone]

@@yunkozane1807your momma is a Reddit section

[@s4uss]

arrows would be caught with rapid arm movement in real life, more similar to how Adam did it at first, but even faster, so this test isn't accurate. but the test was done poorly overall, why did they increase speed to x5 right away, when x2 would already be able to catch the arrow, and it wouldn't even be super-human, especially because of that fast arm movement a ninja would also make. so it's 100% PLAUSIBLE. an arrow also travels fast at first, but then slows down, especially if fired in an arc, so its speed would often be slower.

[@Doug-Didgiridoo]

You don't push or pull a sword with force, you throw the blade, giving a far greater speed, the throw keeps the blade on a clean rotation whilst following / guiding the blade.

[@bjorreb7487]

Was Jamie smiling when he said Adam was going to sink? lars andersen archery. That's a danish guy that can catch arrows from behind and shot them at once. He has a lot of world records in archery.

[@ruslanmakarov1509]

do you think adam was more or less medicated than he is now during this shows run

[@axolotlhugo4827]

42:22 blood on the sword?

[@douglima8344]

The bow is too close to the hand. A real shot would be much further, so you don't need to be that fast. But stepping sideways is much easier though

[@jamesleduke873]

They address that in the revisit.

[@xR0N1Nx]

They didn't get the water shoes at all. You thought them in the water and run across. They float. I hated watching adam tie them to his feet

[@leonneldayoc5715]

I think the misugumo isn't intended to wore it seems like it is deployed for the "ninja's" to quickly jump into one by one to cross so called bodies of water, it's almost identical to a waterlily leaf. Reptiles who can't swim usually jumps to a Lily unto another to cross small bodies of water.

[@NACLGames]

No, it wasn't intended for that either. They definitely used it only as "mud shoes", as the mythbusters actually mentioned in the episode. While what you describe is actually in the realm of plausibility, there's no record anywhere describing such a use. And no wonder, because even if its plausible, it would be highly unreliable. Real ninjas needed highly reliable methods for their work.

[@DGHUSKY1]

can corn startch water stop a bullet

[@maik8338]

There are soooo many old and trashy ninja movies to choose from, but they opted for showing Chinese martial arts movies in between cuts 🙄

[@Thejsniper007]

Tori saying grant was the best at swinging the sword because of the face was messed up but hilarious at the same time 😂

[@acekylerodriguez364]

Weird question: If ninja is suppose to be secret group how do we know them ? I guess they failed an objective

[@Octovisuals]

lol they were back then.

[@sagqe]

Hollywood ninjas like the ones known for these myths are VERY different from the real shinobi, who were more along the lines of spies coming from all backgrounds, not some mythical warriors.