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experts that's right we do this for a living.

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and stop a lethal samurai sword

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with their bare hands

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Who are the myth busters Adam Savage

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And Jamie Heineman almost too exciting

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience

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Hugh dramatic music joining them Carrie Byron

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Grant imahara

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And Tori Bellachy her medics are nowhere to be found they don't just tell the myths

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They put them to the test

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Well, it looks like you finally got your dream show Adam. It's a whole episode devoted to ninjas

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I know it is so cool

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You can jump around make cat noises and karate chops and all sorts of adolescent behavior like we know you love to do

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I am so psyched about this one

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And so you want to go change into your outfit too now what makes you think I have a ninja costume

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I don't know something tells me let's look at some stock footage first

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The origin of legendary Japanese warriors the ninja is shrouded in mystery

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It's believed they were peasants who developed unorthodox combat techniques to defend themselves against the powerful samurai class

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Their skills were so extraordinary. They were reputed to border on being supernatural

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So what do we got well Jamie son?

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We are going to be testing ninjas agility strength reflexes and weaponry by putting their supposed

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Mythical skills to the test of modern science. You mean like catching an arrow

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Exactly and there's walking on water. What about the build team? They're gonna test whether you can stop a sword

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With only your bare hands

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Well, maybe we should start by trying to find a real ninja absolutely, let's go

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Fortunately modern-day ninjas aren't concerned about being covert and the guys find the bujinkan dojo in San Francisco

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Listed in the yellow pages. Okay, so let's play without to start with chief instructor Dale Sego has been teaching

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Feudal battle skills here for more than 20 years. I don't

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Hi, hey Dale. Good to see you

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So this is an injury training going on. Yeah

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Well, this is all military close quarters combat stuff from Japan's pre-unification civil war period

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So like 1600 80 and before really the stuff that we do is based on timing positioning tactics and psychology

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Rather than speed and power. I was hoping you just show us like, you know, what an injured would do if I tried to attack

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Okay, is now the time to tell Adam Dale is

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15th Dan and there is no 16

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Hopefully Adam won't get hurt too bad. A little bit is good. Just do whatever

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Adam hits the mat in record time. I was to do it so that I locked him up

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As he falls Dale gives Adam some pointers on the way down with the famed ninja throwing star

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I wasn't actually using the point just this but it would

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Ripping out here. Yeah, we took him down. I had it in here to right in the back. That's good

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We fell down

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I was ripping across here and he came down at a point where he actually was landing on it like this on the back of his neck

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That's pretty efficient

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Will you come back to our shop and do some of this on high-speed camera? Yeah, I'd like to awesome

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Okay, I'm done

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It's back to the layer to test their three ninja myths beginning with the tale of running on water

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Well barring any

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Magical powers which we can't really test on this show ninjas definitely didn't just walk on water

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But they might have had some help our researchers have turned up a thing called miss a goomo

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So I'm gonna build a set of these and see how effective they are

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Miss a goomo meaning water spider in Japanese were flat wooden disks that ninjas strapped to their feet

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The theory is the wide surface area distributed their weight evenly on the surface of the water so they didn't sink

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What kind of wood would a ninja cobbler have used?

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I've got some pine based light density fiberboard here. It's pretty much perfect for our uses

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So I'm gonna use this as our stand-in for the miss a goomo wood

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Adam measures and cuts out two circles of pine board

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Then he slices each of them into four separate pieces

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That's good

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One by one he stains the sections with a brown pigment and painstakingly sands them back

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paint on

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paint off

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Such is the mysterious way of the former movie prop maker

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Who for no particular reason wants his water shoes to look worn in looks a bit like old wood now?

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Lastly he places a rectangular block in the middle of each circle and secures the pieces together using twine

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It's an ancient jigsaw that makes for a puzzling pair of footwear. I didn't expect it to fold like that

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But I wonder if that's not

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Jimmy Choo can rest easy, but these replica ninja shoes may just float like boats

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Hey, wait to see how these work

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All right, we know ninjas have speed and quick reaction time this myth is about strength

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Ideas and ninjas being attacked by a swordsman swordsmen's coming to swing at his head

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Ninja catches the blade in his hands without cutting his hands and without being chopped in half me like this

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You're not supposed to like that's precisely why we're not starting with real swords

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Precisely the team learned just how dangerous real swords can be in a previous myth when they built a

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Decapitation hazard everybody

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pneumatically powered mechanical device that could whip around with the same force and precision

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Not good as a samurai with a point to prove

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Well, I guess it's time to dust off the old sword swing rig

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I think we're gonna have to turn on the side because I think it's more like a head swing and maybe calibrate it to human speed

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All right, cool. So which one of us is gonna catch it not me people say I'm not that quick

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All right, well, maybe we should make a sword catching rig

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Maybe two hands that come together like that and we'll calibrate it to human force

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Sweet sweet. There's gonna be so much fun

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First they need to make fake hands to attach to their rig

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Carrie gets to work and mixes up a batch of alginate to make molds

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No, I got something else going on. I got surprised for you guys. You're gonna love it

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After 20 minutes the gel is set go higher and Tori can break free

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Nice looks good

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Meanwhile grants brought our ninja's nemesis the samurai sword swinging rig out of storage and has started putting it back together

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The basic idea behind this is big air ram pulls on the chain the chain is wound around the shaft as it pulls

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spins the shaft sword swings

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really quickly

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Representing our aristocratic samurai warrior is a pricey reproduction Japanese sword

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Representing our ninja peasant is a humble ballistics gel head like it. I love it. Good humble

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They align the blade so it sweeps in a downward motion between the arms

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Here's the hands. Yep. Yes, it'll get caught right here

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In the skull. Love it. That's great

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Carrie has made multiple ballistics wax reproductions from Tori's hand molds and slots her first set into the ring

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Now we can also get that applause. We always wanted hmm mythbusters with a live audience

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Coming up the team tries to cut it as ninjas

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We test to see whether ninja miss a gumo shoes

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The belief that some people possess the ability to walk on water has been around for centuries

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So why not the mythical ninja?

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Don't know Jamie arrived at the bamboo reef dive center to try out their replica feudal foot floaties

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Reaser pool for water shoes you bet. All right. Go for it. Cool. Thanks Adam vanishes

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into the ladies room

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And just like magic

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These are my special device for stirring the castle walking across the water

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All right then

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They may look unfathomable time might feed in within an inch of their lives

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But these flat wooden discs were modeled on an exact replica of Japanese feudal times footwear

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When we started looking into whether ninjas could walk on water the first piece we came up with is a museum piece called a

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Mizogumo supposedly for water walking. I'm about to find out

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Being pre velcro Jamie's nautical knot tying skills are a big help

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How many people know this but Jamie comes from an ancient line of nine generations of shoe tires

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Come silent walrus. Let us storm the castle. I will don my safety key

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Don's his padded suit

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Sikes himself up for the challenge

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The pool waters are as still as glass and all is quiet

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It is time for ninja savage to stride forward and walk across its surface

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The first step seemed kind of promising

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Promising maybe a stretch in order for it to be called walking on water there needs to be more than one step

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But ninjas are no quitters so Adam has another tactic to try

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To me it seems like it's all gonna be a function of my ability to move my feet crazy fast like a like a cartoon

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Which might be possible

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Despite his increased momentum the shoes still weren't able to support Adam's weight, but it was comical

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I believe that the moment I hit the water. I was sinking in the water

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These may have slowed my scent

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Really the best it can be said for them looks like Adam's ninja turtle aspirations are all washed up

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I don't know about you, but do you seem a little cumbersome to me? Yeah, I don't think you're going anywhere on water with those things

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The important thing is that I look damn good

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Well, it turns out that meets the gumus were never really intended for walking on water

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They were more for like rice patties or mud flats and they probably worked okay kind of like snow shoes

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Exactly, however, you know ninjas also were not at all above trying to encourage the belief in their supernatural power

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Right the masters of misinformation

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I've heard they would do things like place posts underneath the water as they were escaping a showgun castle to make it look like they were walking on water

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They wanted people to fear their magical powers exactly

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Misugumo shoes may have sunk like the Titanic, but the guys might just rescue this myth yet

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Could ninja stop speeding swords with their bare hands

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To find out the team is building a mechanical device that's part sword swinging samurai and part sword catching ninja

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To calibrate it to move with realistic human strength and speed they need to do some tests

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Grant hangs a force plate on a C-stand that represents the blade the ninja must catch

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The force of the ninja's hands will be set to the person with the greatest strength and do it like your life depends on it

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Thanks for that motivation grand

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Go

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And with a mighty firm smack peaking at 1,000 newtons

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The most determined to stay in one piece is the pain grant the pain from the initial hit

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There you go

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You're all full of newtons

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Yeah, big newtons, baby the team sets up for their next test

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To determine the speed of the sword swipe

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Take this sword throw it down as hard as you can on the ninja and we'll see who's the fastest don't think of it as a competition

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But it is

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Suddenly Adam ambushes the trio it was a classic ninja move

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Tori steps up to take the first swing

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Warning sword blows to the cranium may cause headaches

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Next will Adams attempt have more of an edge

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Master savage sword swinging trial take one

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Ninja's cool black stalker wear is getting shredded

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Finally it's grand's turn the ninja must go to the bathroom before he swings his sword

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He hasn't looked this in sense since Star Trek was canceled

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Mastery Mahara sword swinging test take one

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They compare their times on my high speed and once again grant aces the test

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How many frames is that that is 24 frames and 96 milliseconds nice word way to go benchmark

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Thank you. I think it was the face. That's about 40 is like 47 miles per hour

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Coming up the team discover a ninja job safety hazard

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Look how deep that went and could a ninja really pluck an arrow out of the air

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Sorry about that man. It's okay

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Next up in our ninja bits

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Can you catch an arrow with your bare hands?

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How are we gonna do that?

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Well, I figure we should take some of our arrows downstairs and you can shoot them at me and I'll just try and catch them

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So you'd actually let me shoot at you with a bow and arrow

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Amazingly, yes

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Legend has it that a ninja could do this dexterous trick with ease

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So Jamie and Adam want to get a feel for it themselves

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I'm gonna string a regular bow and set up an arrow with a tennis ball

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Shoot it at Adam or at least off to the side of Adam. We'll put Adam in a protective suit in case I

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Either get frisky or miss

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Jamie is an experienced archer and even though he's not using a real arrowhead

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This is not something to try at home. He's gonna be shooting from over there into this garbage can

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I'm gonna be standing here. We'll catch it on high-speed camera. See how fast I can actually catch the arrow at

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Jamie marks out notches on the shaft the further he pulls back the faster the rod will travel

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All right, I'm ready if you are you want to start slow. Yep. All right, Jamie starts out at mark one

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The arrow eludes Adam's grasp I don't have enough time to anticipate like by the time you let go and I'm moved

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Still at mark one this time Adam tries to move in sync with the arrow

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Anticipated when you were just about to do it and I just started moving and we worked. It's like working together

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It's a beautiful thing. Next Jamie ups the addy to mark three

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But the arrow keeps sailing on by as the guys unified martial arts magic peaked already

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Even though Adams form was impressive the speed was lacking

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Their tennis ball projectile was traveling at 58 miles an hour a third of the speed of a real arrow

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You've got a couple of things here that are throwing this off for one thing

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This is what twice or three times as heavy as a normal arrow would be because of that thing on the end of it

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Right, I really think that we need to figure out some other solution

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To test this myth at a true-to-life rate the guys have to bounce around a new strategy

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Back over at M7 the team has finished putting their mechanical sword catching rig together

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Now to set it to move at a real-life rate

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We don't want it to be superhuman and we don't want it to be subhuman

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We want it to be whatever a person could do then we'll be ready to try and

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Catch a sword

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Calibration first test at OPSI in three two one

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The speed and force of the ninja's arms was exactly the same as Grant's best time

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But the replay reveals something undetectable to the naked eye

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There's a bounce back which could let that sword get right through there

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As the hands hit together they bounce off each other and jiggle like Jello

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Opening up an unforeseen headache

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The force is causing him to bounce away and it's allowing a gap

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Which is gonna allow the sword to go right through and bury into the guy's head

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What I'm thinking is maybe we do is put some kind of a latch so that when the hands come together

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It keeps them there and it's not adding any more pressure

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All it's doing is keeping the hands together like you would be able to do if you were using your muscles

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He attaches two kickstands to the arms that will fall and lock into ratchets and fastens pneumatic rams

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On either side of the hands as things starting to look like a monster

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Pretty soon you're not gonna recognize it, but it's function not form that counts. Here we go in three

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That look nice and sturdy and stable. Yeah, they check it out frame by frame

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Stay together

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With their rigs set to human speed and pressure Grant adds a final touch that will trigger the entire system

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When the arm passes through it actually activates

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The hands clapping let the recreation of the battle between the two ancient warrior classes begin

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In three two one

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High five it seems our mechanical ninja thwarted the flash of samurai slicing steel straight away

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Or are we jumping to conclusions?

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Why?

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It bounced off the table and then shot back up into the

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So you got it on the rebound

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And everybody knows being caught on the rebound doesn't count

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That was like shock that we actually caught it. It was like how does it that easy?

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So true

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But moving on is the best remedy Grant adjusts the timer so the hands will trigger sooner

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Hopefully this time the adjustment will get it so that the hands clap right on the sword. All right, three two

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one

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He stopped it with his head

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Look how deep that went it's all the way down to his eyebrow

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Whoa that definitely split your skull the hand slam shot quicker, but not quick enough

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Okay

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So they tweak the timer just a hair ninja sword catching rig in three two one

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They look right it look really good

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This time the sword comes to a stop

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But only because the hands closed a fraction too early and the blade got stuck in the ballistics material

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five milliseconds off all right five

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milliseconds jump fast five milliseconds is that's ridiculous faster than you can blink your eye

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much faster

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Such an infinite tesama amount might not make any difference to their results in the slice palm

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So do they call this myth busted right here right now or go for absolute precision?

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I

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Think maybe we have to get it the perfect timing before we can actually say anything other people yell at us next Adam and Janie

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Reinvent the ancient ninja

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21st century style

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And after the show log on to discovery comm slash myth busters to see what ask a ninja ninja thinks about the show

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We do a lot of crazy stunts in this show, but none of it is stuff you should try at home

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Jamie and Adam are targeting the myth that a ninja can fuck a speeding arrow out of the air

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You know I was only able to catch these arrows at 60 miles an hour, and I'm not trained at this

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But still your average arrow travels like three times that fast if we were to build a mechanical hand

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I could do that, you know I can make it grab as fast as it's

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Physically possible to grab something or even faster if it turns out that's not possible. Yeah, okay

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I'll build a super accurate arrow shooting rate you build a hand grabbing ring and we'll see what the limit of the human ability to

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Grab an arrow is okay

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Before they build a new rig Jamie and Adam want to study the physical capability of a master of martial arts

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up close

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And personal

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And to the day our feudal battle skills expert. Sorry sir

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Hi, I'm gonna see Dale is willing to let the guys time the swiftness of his highly trained hand when you're ready

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Just go like that and we'll fire the camera and see how fast

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There whenever you're ready

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To get it

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If you blink you would have missed it

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Wow, this is 500 frames per second, so you closed your hand in about 35 milliseconds

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That's great

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That gives us a really good baseline to try and get a robot to equate to and I think it makes a lot easier for our mythical

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Ninja to actually catch it Jamie's beret doesn't come off for many reasons

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But one of them is to well his job is to make a mechanical hand. That's as fast as Dale's

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This is a trick that I've used before on various kinds of movie things where I need a fake hand

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Motorcycle chain is actually a very sturdy and if you run up a line along one side of it that pulls taught the whole thing

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Wants to curl up like that. Jamie welds five pieces of chain together to form the fingers of a hand

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Then he attaches it to a metal stand and threads the links through with long laces

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These things that I'm putting in here right now would be equivalent to

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tendons

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But instead of going to a muscle they're going to a pneumatic actuator

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The actuators will provide the force that will clamp the fingers and thumbs shot in a vice-like grip

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This will be protecting Jamie's shop in no time

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You have three minutes to comply

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While Jamie completes the catch Adam works on the throw

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Hard-mounted the bow to a steel frame. I've got a trigger mount that can pull back the string

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And all this will be attached to a timer a super sensitive timer that will also trigger the hand catching

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The timers will allow the guys to fine-tune the release and hand grab to the millisecond

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Adam and Jamie's arrow-napping device is part man. Haha, that's perfect part machine

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Well

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Hey moving that's not going anywhere. Oh ninja robo hands

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Your move creep

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Arrow catching rig test number one here we go three two one

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Too late

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Adam goes through the numbers off by 200 milliseconds

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Both the arrow and hand were moving at accurate real-life speeds the arrow clock

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170 miles an hour and the hand grab was just two milliseconds slower than ninja Dale

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Adam adjusts the timers to his precise calculations

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The arrow to release 200 milliseconds after the hand starts to activate. So that's one two

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It's 200 milliseconds that ought to do it three two one

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Wonder what happened too fast for my eyes. I know

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Finally they achieve a perfectly coordinated shot

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But even though the rig was working at the correct human and arrow speed the ever elusive projectiles slips through the hand's grasp

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That tells me that at human speed it's not fast enough to grab the arrow

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I think that's exactly what this says. I think you're absolutely right

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I think our only choice at this point is to make the hand go faster

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To ramp it up. That's all there is left. All right. I'll get to rig it. Hi 行きましょ

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That's let's go in Japanese. We have a technique for speeding up the hand. So this will move

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So quickly you won't even be able to see it move

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Very ninja the trick is to spring load the actuators so they hit the quick release superhuman hard and fast

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three

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That is perfect

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Superhuman ninja strength

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Got it at bionic speed robo hand finally manages to defend himself

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Our robot hand is closing five times as fast as a human could possibly close their hand and that's what it took

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It finished before the tail feathers got there, but any slower it wouldn't have caught that arrow

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So the hand of a mere mortel could never have achieved this feat

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Myth is busted. This is what it would take to catch an arrow robo hand robo hand

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Now just all we have to do is build the rest of our superhuman ninja robot and we can take over the world

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Okay, you do that

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On the other side of the break adam has trouble finding his feet walking on water

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Woo, I'll find an indignity that would have been humiliating

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Trying to walk on water

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Wearing an exact replica of supposed ninja water walking shoes

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Adam got nothing but wet

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This time adam is thinking out of the box and making a modern day pair of ninja shoes

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His 21st century misugumo materials are a pair of snowboard boots aluminum and packing foam

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This is a deadly weapon

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I've calculated that four layers of this gives me about 2.2 cubic feet per foot

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Of water displacement that equals about a total of 265 pounds of buoyancy

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He traces outlines of the boots onto the foam cuts out a hole

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And wedges them inside

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Then he sprays glue between the layers

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Awesome, I could not have gone better

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He tapes aluminum sheeting to the base and rivets on a lightweight rail to keep everything rigid

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The final touch is to paint them in a timeless shade of ninja noir

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I'm painting these black because I want to say that I want to be invisible, right?

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I mean it's like in the modern society. You're just

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Now one knows who you are

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That is the essence of the ninja, right?

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To find out it's back to the pool these look like fun. Well, this is ninja suit 2.0. This is my attempt

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What do you think?

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I think it's going to be real hard to stay upright on those puppies. There's only one way to find out

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Yeah adam boards his tanker ships and is ready to launch

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha

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Whoo, if I had any dignity that would have been humiliating

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Just as well because we want to see that pratfall again

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For his next attempt he tries a gentle sitting start. There you go. There we go. Oh, I'm stealthy as the night

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Oh

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Don't I look like silent death?

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I'm bringing justice in the night

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Our far from soundless assassin is trying his hardest to move forward

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My paddle still seems to be working man, but it's like being stuck on a nautical treadmill

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I

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Don't know about these ninja shoes man. What do you think? I think they suck. They don't suck

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Harsh but true

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The samurai have won this mission and adam accepts defeat I give up on my ninja shoes

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They're not stealthy

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They're not easy

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And they don't move

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Coming up on mythbusters. Can I walk across this tub of goo and kari takes a swing at a real ninja?

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You've seen this ninja battle trick in a thousand b-grade martial arts movies, but is it possible?

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To find out kari tori and grant built a sword catching machine that so far hasn't cut it

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He stopped it with his head

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But the timing of their rig is only off by less than the blink of an eye and grants got a plan to make it perfect

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And that's this it's a timer and this will give me millisecond resolution so I can dial in the delay exactly

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Grant makes the minute adjustment they need and our ninja is prepared to make his final attempt

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This is it. I can feel it. This has got to be in three two one

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Ah something came off the hands. Yeah, it was really close

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Once again the sword slips through our ninja's fingers, but where his reflexes right on

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That's that's that's it. Keep going

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Keep going keep going keep going

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We got it. That's the timing was right. Thank you. Thank you very much

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You can't get any more perfect on the timing than that. You still can't catch the sword. That's it. Look and it's just

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Slide right through with their mechanical ninja operating under ideal conditions

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There's nothing more they can do in the workshop

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So it's time again to consult our real life ninja dale nice to meet you

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So I notice you have all your fingers. Have you ever tried to catch a sword with your hands?

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We prefer to get out of the way. I mean we may take the sword away

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But there's there's an offline evasion first a wise tactic

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But to put this myth to the true test dale is bravely allowing carried a swing of sword towards him

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Don't worry. The blade has been dull. All right. So, uh, he's just coming at you like this

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So, let me just get the spot

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What you have a lot of confidence in her a lot more than we do

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For extra protection he's wearing shuko on his hands reproduction ninja climbing claws

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So go like this. Yeah, you'd be starting with your left foot forward

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And then taking a step getting some momentum and kaboom

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Okay, don't hold back carry carry summons up her best kaboom

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I'm gonna get you or just the sword. No, that's scary though. Okay

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You almost got him that time wow

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With 40 years of training under his black belt. That's some force behind it

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Dale blocks or blows using just one hand

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Dale's preferred sword catch technique is different to the one we're testing

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So what's his take on the bare double-handed approach?

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The idea of trying to stop it this way with all that kinetic energy still coming here

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Is probably not a good idea if you were to attempt it and try to make it work

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To be best to catch and receive so you're absorbing and redirecting the force

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That's taking hand goodbye, but I think I'll just wave and thank you so much

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Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Good to see you guys. High five, huh?

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Yeah

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Look at that slice back at the shop armed with dale's input and the sorry condition of their fake hands

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What conclusion has the team come to?

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So, yeah bare hands

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The timing was perfect and the hands came together at the perfect time with the most human strength

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We can muster and still couldn't hold on to it. Are we calm this one busted? Yeah, pretty much unless you're a movie ninja

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I don't think that you can hold on to the sword. There's just too much velocity behind it. Yep

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We gave this one our best shot

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See, you mean all those ninja movies were not true

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Attempting the mythical ninja trick of walking on water adam went nowhere but under

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But as the silent observer of his numerous dunkings

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Jamie's had time to think and he's come up with a mysterious solution

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There is something that I've come up with that you can't walk on it

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Does have a lot of water in it

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I'd like to see how that works

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His covert concoction is 200 gallons of water

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And 1 000 pounds of powdery cornstarch

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Trusted mithtern Jess is in charge of getting the consistency just right

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Some blue food coloring completes the recipe

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Okay, we're good. Are we ready to pour? Yeah, anywhere

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The mixture is tipped into a large plastic container that represents a deep samurai moat

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Adam is perplexed. What is this stuff? It's water

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It's got some else in it, but it's water. It's a hinderman version of water. Yeah, and you're gonna walk on it

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No way way, there's nothing adam would rather do than play in a giant taboo goo

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Look at this

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Ha ha ha

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Finally the container is filled to the brim and our ninja novice soaks up some advice from sensei hinderman

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I think you ought to get one good stride across it as far as hanging out there and walking around

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Or even hopping. I have my doubts

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All right, well, I want to go

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Adam scales the imaginary wall and is ready to cross the water obstacle

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Think like those movies where they're walking up bamboo and stuff, you know

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That is so cool

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Hey, it worked it sure did adam ran across the surface

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The reason is the cornstarch and water combo is a non-newtonian fluid and these kinds of fluids change their viscosity

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It looks like a liquid. It pours like a liquid, but when you want to run across it

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You're fine because the impact of your feet is enough to change that balance

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All of a sudden you've got a solid that you're dealing with only for a second

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But it's long enough for you to move across the top of it without sinking into it

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I'm just gonna go back and forth a couple of times because it's really fun adam shatters the perception that shadow warriors don't know how to have a good time

451
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,320
Dude, it's a lot of work big ninja is a hard job

452
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,600
It wants to let you go down doesn't it?

453
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:36,600
All right, so this is just to show there's no trickery involved. This is actually liquid. I'm gonna step into it

454
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,560
I'm gonna sink then I'm gonna change my clothes

455
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,520
Oh, that's funky

456
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,840
So it's a far-fetched idea for feudal japanese times

457
00:41:55,080 --> 00:42:03,160
But corn was introduced to japan around the 16th century right around the time ninjas existed and it sure was fun

458
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,480
Oh, come on in the water's great

459
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,720
Of course, this is a little on the silly side. I mean, yes, it's a liquid

460
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,080
But uh, are you really gonna have large quantities of

461
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,960
Corn starch mixed up and sitting around someplace

462
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:23,400
I suppose maybe next to a corn starch factory in Asia somewhere and you happen to be a ninja and you happen to be trying to sneak around

463
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,120
It's a bit of stretch

464
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:32,120
All right, so this is the end of the line for walking on water. What do you think? It's busted totally busted

465
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Let's go home. All right

466
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,560
Adam i'm a little concerned about upsetting the ninja community

467
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,840
Really? I mean come on. How many of them could there be left?

468
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,480
Ah

469
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:55,960
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470
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,120
It looks like a buddy of mine

471
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,240
Didn't get enough watch bloopers behind the scenes clips and buster getting battered

472
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,560
Stop by the video gallery at discovery.com slash myth busters