Can a modern ninja swat a speeding bullet away with his bare hands?

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MythMod

Tory's marks(from the paintballs) just reminds me Adam's marks from the Ultimate Mythbusters Pain Test segment.

Regarding the use of paintballs and paintball markers in the test, there are some factors to consider with paintballs.

My observations are based upon my experiences with paintball and playing paintball for the past 4 years.

Paintballs are made of gelatin based shells which are at times temperature sensitive. Looking at the container, it looked like the paintballs were softening up in the heat. This would cause them to be more likely to bounce on impact. There are many instances where paintballs bounce.

Seeing Tory's hands, he was wearing some thick gloves. That extra paddding would more likely cause the paintballs to bounce.

And paintball guns are normall shot at 300 fps :P Just to let you know. Well that's the max on fields.

Well im watching right now... and from the looks of it they need to re-position the hand, its just in one way, swatting downward, but really i just feel its impossible because no one has better reflexes than a cat!!! and im pretty sure a cat cant avoid getting a cap in his ass!! lol

I would have to say no!!!
The only way that myth may be confirmed is if they re-position the hand and increase the speed it swats
But i dont even think a ninja has the reflex of a cat!!
Im pretty sure a cant avoid a bullet!!!

of course a ninja could swat a bullet. granted some damage taken to the hand. but the adrenaline would keep him going, like one of those scottish berserkers. a ninja with a keen eye and sense of self preservation could tell when a gunman would fire and move his hand accordingly. although it doesnt make sense, no man could draw a gun on a ninja without having a shuriken in his skull by the time its drawn.

"nothing is more dangerous than a ninja, their masters of all types of combat" - J.D (scrubs)

i play paintball, first of all you should of turned up the velocity to 300 fps. Also ive noticed from personal experience the colder and harder the paintball the less they break, when it is really hot and or humid they seem to break very easily. Also depends on the quality of the paintball. And why did anyone think a ninja could stop a bullet in the first place.

I can't beleive you guys missed the "catch a bullet with your teeth" as shown in the classic The Last Dragon.

Not to pick nits here but the hand was NOT moving when the bullet grazed it...

I dont think they can call it busted because they should have tried to hit the bullet from a different angle

generally the human hand is too soft to do this, the bullet would just pass through the flesh and keep going. for a ninja I do not think it is likely to do this, but there is a form of Chinese martial arts know as iron hand. through the condition of the hands used in this style it might be possible for a person to change the trajectory, maybe or maybe not, but even so I seriously doubt that they would be able to change the trajectory enough to avoid injury. that would require milisecond reflexes, incredible speed and force, and a very tough hand.

I do have to agree with isthisev3nlegal on the shuriken though. It would take considerably less time for draw and get a shuriken airborne than for someone to draw a gun.

They already did catching a bullet in your teeth several seasons ago. It was busted.

ok, the slapping thing was fun and all, but we all know it's impossible to stop a bullet with flesh, even if the timing could be pulled off. What I want to know is if a bullet or arrow could be stopped by a sword like in crouching tiger or hero. The arrow part seems at least possible to me. This is one I'd love to see the guys do

Instead of swatting the hand down it should have been going the other way. From my experience in fencing its better to deflect away instead of toward you because if the bullet would have been deflected it would have still gone toward the body by what they were doing.

It's supposed to be a Ninja's hand. You should use a steel plate in place of the hand, if not at least concrete. That would surely deflect the bullet.

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Originally posted by mythmod:
Can a modern ninja swat a speeding bullet away with his bare hands?

Talk about it here!

MythMod

No. Ninjas are masters of ninjitsu. What you need is a master of sinanju. Just ask Remo Williams.

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Originally posted by paintball6818:
i play paintball, first of all you should of turned up the velocity to 300 fps. Also ive noticed from personal experience the colder and harder the paintball the less they break, when it is really hot and or humid they seem to break very easily. Also depends on the quality of the paintball. And why did anyone think a ninja could stop a bullet in the first place.

ummm i think it's the other way around. The colder it is, the more brittle the shell becomes. The warmer it is, the more pliable and soft the shell becomes and the more likely it bounces.
This is especially true w/ cheap paint. Which it seems like the ones they used on the show :P Like walmart paint in a jug :P

I like how they joked "of couse, the fans won't be happy until we get a real ninja..."

Did they consult an actual expert in the martial arts? Did they talk to somebody who has done research (real research, not internet research) into ninjas?


* There were not NEARLY enough test cases.
* They did not keep going to see what it would take to actually deflect a bullet.


I am no so much disappointed with the result (they are probably correct) as with the testing protocols. You cannot call a myth busted without exhausting the possibilities (like the Mythbusters used to - what ever happened to quality over quantity )

What about deflecting a bullet with a sword, in a lot of movies you see it.

Any self respecting Ninja isn't going to be bare handed. They're gonna be wearing gloves and perhaps even a pair Ninja Hand Claws. Herhaps they could deflect a bullet with the Ninja Hand Claws or how about Kevlar gloves (you did say modern)...