I can't believe they were able to film this and keep a straight face with this ridiculous ninja guy.

"Symptoms of hypothermia include..." having your most humiliating moments replayed, apparently. So much respect to Tory for everything he's endured!

The ninja while not superhuman was actually pretty good and had technique and decent reflexes

That ninja produced amazing results! Under his circumstances

I have almost that _exact_ same bow, Jamie just rocked up a few notches in my book. That "WHat?!" response from the B-Team was amazing.

real ninja, I cant stop rolling on the floor😂

There is one thing I absolutely don't get about catching an arrow: Why should I even try to catch an arrow in a fight if it is much easier to just avoid it?

Im a ninja arrow catcher but you have to shoot slowly and away from me……Oh and a set distance 😂🙄!!

The water would wash the poison off of the poison dart! Also why is everyone being mean to that ninja, I though he was a good sport and seemed like a decent bloke?

The chapter barely started and I'm already laughing 😂

Bro was just letting the tennis balls hit his chest and then wrapping his arms around them, if it was any sort of dangerous projectile, it would've gone right through him lol

First: I've been aware of it for a long time, and nothing I've ever seen has come anywhere close to convincing me the one-inch punch is much more than pushing someone with your fist. Second: The thing about arrow-catching reflexes is: apparently every healthy person's are pretty much the same, as far as things like "how quickly do you react to a loud noise or a flash of light" are concerned. What makes boxers and table tennis players and hockey goalies and damn near all sportsmen and women as good as they are is the ability to read and adjust to the physical cues (stance, body position, angle of bat/paddle/stick, etc.) their opponents are giving away before the fist or ball or puck actually moves on its final path to you. Some people are just naturally better at it, but all of the best got as good as they are through thousands of hours of immersion in their particular pursuits. I remember a guy from high school volleyball who could read our setter (and anyone else's) like a book. He would call out where the ball was going before it had even touched the setter's hands. Freaked us out. And our setter was good - the only guy from our team who went on to play in college. Regardless, all of that is of no use to a person catching an arrow. Even if he can see it, the release is so smooth and quick he can't anticipate it at all. The hockey goalie actually illustrates both perspectives - he puts himself and his equipment in position based on his anticipation and reading of the situation, so that when the shot comes, he's more than likely ready for it and can make the save; but when you watch slo-mo replays of a goalie catching a puck with the big sweeping glove hand that finishes up above his head, you'll see that usually the glove doesn't even start that move until the puck's already in it.

Any reason for the underwater blowpipe ninjas to not simply use two pipes, one for breathing and another one pre-loaded for shooting? I don't think two 'reed/bamboo' pipes would be any less stealthy than one.

"He requested the bow only pulled at half draw" In other words... no, he can't catch an arrow unless it's under very specific and reduced conditions... So... still busted.

The silly sounds are making this episode perfect😂 * ploem * poing * njamw etc. yes i know, i translated it very well, thank you😮😂

Saying "real ninja" feels a lot like saying "real viking". You can get a competent re-enactor with a lot of historical knowledge and both technical skill and personal experience. But they don't go crossing the North Sea in longboats to trade or behead monks any more than that dude assassinates high stakes targets in Sengoku period Japan.

Wait till they hear about how this idea of a ninja comes from the movies and not history.

The thing is, there is 1 Ninja left in the world. If he did not already pass away. Either way. The last "real ninja" said, because this kind of skillset is no longer required these days, he decided not to train a successor and let the arts die with him. Compared to shitty "Hollywood Ninjas", a real ninja is supposed to be a lightweight, nimble acrobatic and athletic person, trained at using a lot of different tools as well as the art of disguise. But more importantly, instead of Hollywood's fighting ninjas, a ninja is a person, able to keep incognito, gather information, and get out. Or in the worst case scenario, get in, make sure the target will never get back up, and get out unseen. If they got caught, it was not about "fighting to survive", but rather having the honor and integrity to choose suicide and not giving out information to the enemy vs living, but becoming a traitor. Another thing I remember reading into, all ninjas were vegetarians. Reasons being that meat increases your body odor compared to leafy greens. And you wanted to be undetectable visually, audibly as well as nasally. Nothing would be worse than trying to sneak into a stronghold, but getting found out by your smell. But on the other hand, I can guarantee you that samurai definitely smelled way worse than any ninja. At the same time, most ninjas would hide as farmers and in medieval Japan, farmers certainly didn't take a bath every day either.

The speed of the arrow may be the same. But the amount of time a person has to react is greater if the know its coming.

Well, cheating seems like a very ninja way to go about a challenge, so .. gg Kari!

Don't ask where they got that leather suit

Flying Walrus.... after all these years ... 1st time i heard THAT .!!!.. 😅

I stopped this before the discussion at the end of talking about the arrow catch. Like the ninja made a point. Really, world fights would rarely see a ninja attack with a bow at that close. And an archer would not pull a full draw if their attack being attack that close. A full drew is would weaken you for the fight. While I agree, sometimes it will happen as a full drew that close. It would be the outliers. Usually, the only reason a ninja is attacked by archers and it being a full drew would become like a guard in a tower. Under those circumstances, it'll only be the one archer that spotted him/her. Giving them enough time to catch it, they knew it was coming. Given Ninjas' tendency for stealth, they would usually be very concious of their environment. So it's for the ninja who saw an arrow coming the could catch it. What better way to instil fear in your enemies than to do something they thought was impossible. The difference between lab and real world is the extra variables. I still say in reality a ninja probably did catch an arrow and that's where the myth comes from.

the speed might not drop off.... but the time to react is extended. 10 ft to 50ft is 5x as much time to react in. So... no. It's not about the arrow speed differing, but the time of the person being shot at to respond.

28:40 The face you make on the toilet after eating mexican.

5:30 That's BS. It's not about the speed of the arrow (alone) but about the distance it has to cross: The longer the distance, the more time the catcher has to react, aim etc. Besides: Has anyone ever seen someone catching an arrow without moving his arm? Who in the world would stand still like frozen and just move his fingers? - And the fans were right on one more point: If there are in fact people that actually can catch arrows and your machine cannot: Well, then your machine is just not fit for the task!

Hey guys isn't that ninja too old for combat, ninjas used to be younglings in battle no? Higher reflexes and all that

So cringe with the ninja guy😂😂😂

Previous episode was fine audio -wise, but now bad again... Please let someone fix these episodes before uploading them!

Who ARE the Mythbusters?

Don tried this at Home... Home did not survive.😵

Is it just me, or is the audio of the voiceover really muffled in this video?

Narration too low on volume

Jamie the alpha male

he is sooooooooo fake that ninja

Stop shooting darts at Colin Furze.

That guy is not a ninja. He's a pretend-ninja. You want someone who is properly trained with good reflexes? Try someone like a boxer or someone who plays table-tennis where reaction time and physical response is part of everyday training. STOP CALLING THE MCDOJO GUY A NINJA!

Where is Grant looking at 42:31 lol

narrator guy only speaks on left side

find it funny to watch as these are not ninjas xd a ninja is just someone gathering intel aka espionage

That was NOT a 1 inch punch. All the force came from just moving from the shoulder. The real one comes from the hips.

Bahahaha that "ninja" dude is the cringiest thing I've seen in a bit

BS. That's not Chuck Norris.

The cringe factor was high with this loud ass attempt at ninja boasting about his achievements.

Is the One Inch Punch a myth? No. As even they said, Bruce Lee did it. While he wasn't exactly an average person, he wasn't a mythical made up person.

Odd how they did not seem to really investigate the origins of the myths. Head to Nagano, Togakushi area and they could check out some historical ninja areas without trekking into some off-the-beaten-path museums. I recall one even had the walking on water tools used and had images of them being used. Many of the myths do come from actual events- just twisted by US media back in the day... and to some extent now too. Side note- there is no codified code of the samurai @mythbusters. Bushido bits were written well after the heydays of the Samurai by Samurai-become-bureaucrats looking back at the "good 'ol days" and then compiled in the book made famous. 今原さんがちゃんと調べるべきことではなかったか？

Respect to the Aussie. HE LET ThEM shoot atrows at him willingly. Tell me another nationality that would do that withot a helmet Telle another

That's poor research, Ninja are barely mentioned in old japanese literature.

That was honestly hard to watch being a trained marksman and proficient with a bow. Surely Adam or Someone on set would have known about Brandon Lee and alarm bells should have gone off... Would love to hear Adams thoughts in hindsight over on Tested about this one... Also in heat of battle its well plausible, video of baseball star catching ball about to hit a reporter is proof enough but people have also heard and ducked bullets and such traveling sub sonic, you could not replicate it if you tried though and never should.

It was 6th season, at that time the show had lost all fresh attitude

There is nothing less "ninja" than glasses.