Level Up Your Skills with Video Games! - Mythbusters - S09 EP10 - Science Documentary 

Gaming taught me English and thanks to that I can watch shows like Mythbusters. :D

I still can't wrap my head around the fact this was made +10 years ago. Can you imagine what they could do with modern technology? Drones, 3D printers, 4K slow motion cameras and other recording gizmos?

I'm a pilot, video games can 100% help with real-world skills, probably not if it's GTA, but Microsoft flight sim, especially vatsim can and will help you if you take it seriously

Jimmy Broadbent. He is a youtube SimRacer. He has now raced professionally for 2 different teams and over a dozen races. Some of which he has won and appeared on a podium. His entire racing experience before Praga was exclusively online.

I love Adam's golfing clothes. This brought a smile to my face this morning. I can't golf to save my life.

3:04 - this is actually hilarious, well done who ever came up with the idea to film the ball in the air like this :D

41:34 ???? that deer, just casually chilling in the background in the shade of the smal tree.... lmao

Video games helped me when it came to getting my HGV licence. I learnt how to reverse on Euro Truck Simulator2 and putting it into practice when training for my real life licence really helped

It stands to reason that video games can convey only those real skills that are actually used in the game. Since golf games don't make you line up your shot, you're not holding a golf club etc, it's a bad training tool for golf. Even the game they played is a motion capture golf game but there is no weight to the club, no length to it, and the game is probably very forgiving about the aim. But the military uses video games to teach tactics and strategy which are actually skills you use during gaming.

S9 leaves me torn - miss the Trio of Terror - however Jaime really comes out his shell these episodes, it’s fun to see him more animated!

The grenade myth? Don't get me wrong I love this show, always have, which is why I am rewatching them for like the 4th or 5th time, but Adam sitting in that little room wondering what Jamie's trap might be ....? Oh, I don't know, maybe it has something to do with that tube sticking out of the wall to his right filled with green paint that we can see in nearly every shot, LOL :D

Spike strips have plastic sleeves that do the same job. Once inserted by a car running over the spike strip, it allows the wheel to deflate

As of now, 2024, my skills with racing simulation (ACC with a basic Fanatec setup) help me a lot in driving irl.

Thanks its great

If you shoot one less bullet than you have in your magazine, it can make your reload faster because you don't have to re-cock your firearm. For instance, if you put a 10 round pistol mag into a pistol and rack the slide, you now have 9 rounds in your magazine, and one in your chamber. If you shoot 9 rounds, you have nothing in your magazine, but still one in the chamber. That means if you drop that magazine after shooting 9 rounds and put in another 10 round magazine, you technically have 11 bullets in the gun, and can continue to shoot because that last bullet in the chamber from the old magazine will fire and re-rack the slide for you, emptying the chamber of the case of the previous cartridge and loading in a new cartridge from the fresh magazine. If you need to shoot fast and reload faster, this is the way,

4:54 I love that Jamies the same way I would if I ever get to drive one of these things: the MarioKart way.

Driving sims with a proper setup 100% translates.. Except for the brown pants factor!

jamies laugh at 47:05 omg

Jamie's golf swing was hurting my soul 😆 so terrible!!

I think the woman in the grenade clip having her arm cramp is very likely, because you don't know how little of a grip is too little, and when it's your life and your kids' lives on the line, you're going to hang on with everything you've got. Adam might have some fear of something happening, but he knows it's not going to kill him, so he's not holding on with white-knuckle fear. But yes, he proved very handily you could hold onto that grenade for two hours like the woman did.

Well, don't mess with Travis. 😳

well done adam, better at drifting and Golf!!!

Been playing golf for around 40 years now and have taken friends who never played a day in their lives and all of them were better than Adam and Jamie here. I wondered why, but then it made sense. If they f**ked around on the first test they literally could only get better, lol :)

All I am thinking is keep your front arm straight!! 🤣

A lot of people quickly judging a show created 10+ years ago when the tech/simulation wasn't as advanced as it is now, also conducting a test on one form of sports really wasn't a conclusive test, im sure there are some sports that even today wouldn't give you an edge if you had no experience by using video games such as track and field, swimming, rugby, football ect, the only sport that has really given an ability to take what you've learnt from a game/sim is racing sims especially if the person learning has the right setup (wheel, peddles, gear shift).

Wow - those lessons at Pebble Beach cost a mere $500 per hour...

18:00 Jamie wins a trophy haha

Gran Turismo says Hi!

put your watch-strap around the grenade,McGiver

imagine guy whose name is James Bond trying it at home just because mythbusters said you can do it if you are namesake with him?

I played so much super mario im now an expert at stomping turtles. Doesnt come up often irl but still, it is s skill that translates well....

Driving with a good setup I think is the only major mechanical skill that will translate, I remember that when I got GT5 on PS3 I was also taking my license, aside from the cluth that my DFGT didn't have, I basically used what I learned in the game IRL in driving school.

A golf game can teach you the course layout but it can’t teach you to swing a club. In a similar way, a driving game could teach you the layout of a circuit and the appropriate lines to take.

the basic instinct joke 😂🤣

Yes, a lot.

He picked the wrong golf game. They have golf simulators that you use real golf balls and clubs on. My uncle had one to help his golf game.

With the golf story, one could also improve by reading a book on how to play and putting it into practice.

how did they get Jamie Driving a Golf Cart past the insurance company?

Would've been more analogous to have Kari or some other woman hold the grenade, too. Adam had only a little trouble, but a woman's small hands and lower muscle density might have confirmed that myth for women, before Adam used clothing to tie the spoon shut

Sim racing conveys to real life. Plenty of exemples available of sim racers that became real life racers. Just to name a few: Jimmy broadbent, Steve brown, some nascar drivers....

There are certain games which improves real world skills, one example is the pro sim drift racer who was invited to drift a top drift racers car for the sole purpose of finding out if skills were transferable which it turns out they are

"I know enough about golf to know you need to counter slope and momentum" Id hope that even without seeing golf, one would understand a ball will roll to the lower point of a slope 😅

Dunk it!

why even do the golf one if your gonna use the worst peripheral that is the PS3 motion controls

Good one. Do not try these at home unless you are James Bond... Or Q. 😅😅😅

I really missed the old Myth Buster gang.

Up ya game, One real myth is that, (my father told me this as a kid) one cheet of paper is so strong, if you pull it a 100 percent stright it would me able to drag a train/car.. Thats why i still believe your spider web xperiment was unjust, twas handeled like a wire with end studs which is weaker.. Take a nylonstrap, every strand lift at once, but when the limit is exeeded it explodes,. Emagine a phonebook, if you rip it at an angle, every page acts as one, but together unbreakable.. Thats how people are able to rip it in half with ease..

You are PROUD for America because they kept him alive. Even if he wasn’t, most are hit with a CRAZY bill if they don’t have insurance!! Sometimes, even when they do. What a twisted view!

17:33 hes seeing jesus

Yes, after NEVER using a shotgun in my real life, on my first attempt i scored 7-10 on real clay pigeon shooting.

Upload the water slide episode

To really answer the question about games you'd need to really look at more than just one genre, and compare them to their real world equivalents.

11:19 Missed opportunity to do a "tack" joke, since a small weld is called a tack. "Welding tacks on tacks" lol

Gran Turismo did .... F1 drivers do

You know what? 13 is actually pretty decent for a first time encounter with golf. I wonder if whiffs and penalties were considered?

video game is more of a practice what you already know than learning from scratch... that is generally what pilot, police and nuclear reactor operator do... plus it's also matter what video game used as a practice, almost none of the video game that professional uses to practice is available to the public... i think the only one that do, is microsoft flight simulator.

I don’t think the video game was up to par. But in car racing Gran Turismo and NASCAR showed video games did help

3 situations that I think video games could absolutly improve your real world performance all have very physical elements. and they are all called simulators rather than games. Racing sims, where you have a force feedback wheel, pedals all that. Flight sims, again with force feedback yoke or stick, and a commercial VR welding simulator. they all need a little bit more realistic hardware than just a PlayStation, but are proven to provide real world skills in a virtual environment. I'm unsurprised at the result, golf is a very physical nuanced game, you can feel the difference between swings if its good and bad, and Jamie just wasnt getting that. the game controller does not replicate that at all. having no heft, you could see he almost never followed through, because he wasnt swinging a lump of steel around. Im in no way a good golfer, but ive played a few proper games, and a messed around with golf skills quite a bit. we used to clear out paddocks from a weed called pig-melons, which grow a disgusting smelling, inedible melon about softball sized when ripe. but take a golf club out and smack all the melons when they are golfball sized, before the seeds can mature. very labour intensive, but my dad was pretty big brain, send a few 13yo lads out and make a competition of it. the game was to splatter melon chunks over your mates. we were disgusting afterwards, but we all learnt pretty good powerful and accurate swings out of it. after 2 years of that, we'd eliminated 90% of the weeds, to the point it wasnt much of a sport any more. Then we discovered there are such things as floating golf balls. so we set up a driving range on the beach, with a ski boat as a retriever. I totally understand how dogs feel chasing balls, you didnt go until the THWACK of the ball and then race out as fast as possible to retrieve the ball. but you had to moderate your wake and speed so you could actually pick it up. not only did it greatly improve my drive, but also my boat handling. which you would never get towing a skier, approaching a dock, fishing, etc. video games are fun, but messing about with your mates playing weird invented games is better. you just cant really do that on a Wednesday night after work on your couch

wow playstation move?! it's been a while since i last saw one.

Why would you hold the grenade and not tie something around it? Surely cannot be that hard, but I guess if it's live you're not in a good place for a bit of trial and error.

Obviously never saw the Gran Turismo movie

Depends on what skill bc sim racing has proven to be as great as a teacher as a real one

Strange that Jamie couldn't figure out the distance per club thing even after being instructed to. Golf definitely isn't for everyone. lol

One "video game" type that evolved into simulator, is Driving & Racing games. And those really can train people into a Pro in real life. Because that count as Simulator not a game anymore.

Why golf and not ETS p.e???

its already been proven now, Sim racing has transferance to real world racing, 2 sim racer i know are now actual racers and winning races, its a tool not a "wave a wand" and you Schumacher but still shows how far we've come.

Mythbusters will always remain my favourite show , but once the Build Team left the show I felt it lost some of its Mojo .

Would be much better a tecnical game like fliying a plane or maybe a simulator that can provide teorical knowleage instead of practice.

Just erks me to fix their awful golf grips. You'll never improve by doing it wrong from the beginning

they only tested 1 game -.-

Golf was a terible game to pick for this experiment, the skills just don't translate. Racing games can help you learn the more fine intricacies of driving, like grip, weight shifting, ect. Flight sims can help you learn how planes function and fly. Even more realistic shooters can teach you how to say fire a sniper from a long range and you have to compensate for windage and dropoff. Golf was just a wild pick, only a crazy high end golf sim where you're actually hitting a ball would have helped here.

You skiped ep08❤

I haven't seen the show with the grenade, but why couldn't she just throw the thing?

I got 22-4 k/d in a 1v4 in Pavlov VR with a pistol vs rifles and rank top 500 with said pistol. I have played 1 day of airsoft with a hired 250fps aeg g36 and got 25-5 k/d with confirms over 100 meters with iron sights. It translates.

I love the later seasons because Adam seems to have rubbed off on Jamie in the way that he's seemingly a lot more comfortable on screen

Wow, they are still making Mythbusters? Or is this a myth?

As he points a firearm at his junk 🙄

i kinda dont like these last seasons style of editing and it feels shallow without the whole crew... what happened? also noticed that the 3 stopped interacting with jamie and adam sometime around the mid seasons, why?

yes ppl can reload pistol faster than you.. ppl who have experience and know what they are doing.. way faster than myhtboys

Golf is meme

The green is trash ils crazy

37:36 what’s wrong here. I’ll give you two big hints. Adam gets it wrong x3 the narrator says the proper word for the proper…..? I hope someone gets this…38:00 Adam says it correctly. Sooo this means the editors dont know shit about fire arms lol

there is litterally NOTHING in a golfing game that can teach you how to golf. but i still understand the choice. seeing as almost everything else they already have real world experiance with.

I actully have question how The fuck can you have ads on this video and not taken down. Consider you are not The mythbusters etc

Jamie is way more humble and down to earth, compared to Adam. An actually likeable dude I would enjoy spending time with.

Videogames only teach you the skill of zoning out and wasting your time.

05:18 i'm sorry but this is just pointless i'm gonna skip through to the B subject. seriously first of all golfing??? like i said in my other comment. no golfing video game activity is going to make you any better at actual golfing. it's like pushing a toy truck with your hands as a kid. and thinking you can drive an actual truck irl. golfing games are just arcade games. it's not going to teach you how to swing. at most it can teach you what iron to use. ok that aside. a baseline? and how exactly do you expect to measure any improvement? compare the second run to the first run? alright... now what in the ffing goddamn world makes you think that the second run wouldn't be an improvement over the first one without the gaming? these 2 are going to be better at golfing halfway through their first run.

Learn how to drift a car on a simulator and those skills will follow through to the real thing.

Jamie lowered his number of tries and got a better swing score. So... can video games make you better at a real life skill? No. Seems like an objective answer.

Golf suck:)

And the Mythbusters are wrong....... again. You actually CAN become better doing stuff from playing a game. This short little test they did here is just ridiculous and actually a little bit pathetic coming from scientists.

This aged porly 😂 sim drifters and racers can literally compete with rl pro's lmao

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Rated as one of the worst episodes of Mythbusters... so much fluff

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Grammer man jamie and i not me

We want seasons 1 to 4, not this crap.

Of course Adam had to dress like a clown