An American's First Time In A German Sauna...
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As an American working for a German band, I've gotten to travel a lot and experience a bunch of new things... And recently, I experienced a German Sauna for the first time, and it was definitely something...
00:00 Intro / Americans Are Weird
01:43 NordVPN Ad
03:26 Not Knowing How A Sauna Works
07:33 The Very First Sauna Experience
10:26 Pasta Alfredo & Currywurst
11:43 105C/221F Aufguss
13:22 Pool & 2 More Saunas
14:17 Immediate Afterthoughts
16:18 Americans Are Still Weird
17:15 Final Thoughts / Outro
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I suggest you check out the 70's European movie 'The Day of the Jackal', about an assassin hired to kill the French president. It was remade with Bruce Willis as the assassin, but the original is really good.
In it, you have at least two instances of full frontal female nudity, and one instance of full back male nudity. And it was no big deal, even back then. Sadly, European cinema is catering more and more to US audiences these days, so that kind of stuff is almost never in movies anymore. Back then, it was just a good way to show seduction happening, even if the action happened off-screen.🤷
Sauna so hot the beard had to go for added ventilation.
😂😂😂
@@TankTheTech Much better dude! :)
I was wondering why I thought he looked different!
@@TankTheTech
I think it suits you better. You look younger with this style.
@@helloweener2007first thing I said to myself when I clicked on this was damn Tank is younger than I thought.
As a swede i'd die before talking to a stranger on the subway but id get naked next to one on a bench in a sauna without batting an eye
Exakt!! Just as mingle time at family gatherings or at work is THE WORST, but I go to nudist beach now in the summer with no hesitation. Or when you're in a friend group talking about who's the most carefree nude neighbour (nakna grannen), almost boasting/trying to outdo each other.
As long as you don't drop the soap and do not peter gaze.😂
as an austrian i agree
@@colonelhstinkmeaner8547 "meh", there's worse things in life
Same here in Finland. We have trained you well.
meanwhile kevin brings his 5000 watt hair dryer in the sauna
Beardless Tank is a very strange mixture of Kevin and mainly Nico
Those two put it up to it I hope LOL
I really think it’s Mac from Always Sunny.
I can't unsee it now, thanks
Oh no! The pyro got Tank's beard after all!
DUDE! No don't say that man!
My first thought was that he lost a FIFA 24 Tour-nament, tour long video game tournament
😂😂
I still remember the Jackson Nipplegate at the Superbowl halftime show, and as an European I was confused, why this was such a big thing.
This was especially strange because nudity was so common at concerts/festivals in the US in the early 2000s. Remember Woodstock with hundreds of topless or full nude girls all being streamed in TV? And this was happening at every festival/open-air gig. Not to mention Mardi Gras. And then hell break out because of a woman wearing pasties. And now everything about nudity became so toxic (not only in the US but in europe as well).
All of us Europeans were confused as hell. I kept waiting to find out if there was anything else about the whole thing that would explain the drama around it but nope. It was just a nipple.
Yeah, this. It was soooo... What is happening? And also, SHE needed to apologize xD The most rediculous, sexist BS I've ever seen.
Tank didn't know how well he was going to get to know the band
I think they adopted Tank as a brother
Thanks for sharing this! For us Europeans it's véry entertaining to witness your European adventures.
Enjoy your time at home and give Claire and Ingrid a hug.
And I like your new look!
I worked in Germany for 2 months for an internship, my boss there gave me some kind of voucher to go to a german spa place and being Finnish, I expected a normal sauna experience. I wasn't ready. Didn't know EVERYTHING was nude and mixed. Being very socially anxious person, the meditation/resting room in a silent spot did wonders. Overall really enjoyed it
When I as a german once spent some time in Finland I was completely surplised how talkative the finns are when they're in saunas.
I thought the finns are all quite introverted and suddenly everyone started talking to me 😂
@@xyzz232 The two things that get an average Finn to socialize the most are saunas and alcohol 🍻
@@xyzz232 It's a sauna thing.
That surprises me tho, might be a bit different depending on area... But I'm never naked in a sauna and prefer female-only days... And in my recent Helsinki trip, Finns were just walking naked punblicly in an outdoor sauna XD That was something! When I was in Japan in an Onsen, you HAD TO be naked. Never mixed tho.
@@LETMino85 I guess there are a few places like that in the south. Being from the northern parts, only public saunas I've been to were in swimming halls, never mixed & towel around unless they were showering or in the sauna. Also, I've been in Japan too but sadly missed out on Onsens.
Wait until Tank learns learn about FKK ;)
Yes! XD I was wondering if I should comment something like that.
I am Dutch and around 1990 I lived for 5 years in the USA and I for sure noticed the different views about nudity.
I got a postcard from my sister for my birthday portraying her children (around 6 years old, I think) in her kitchen and I proudly showed this to my american colleguas and they immediately reacted shocked. I had no idea what was going on. They pointed at a calendar with a beach picture and some women sunbathing topless. Nothing sexual, nothing weird. Just sunbathing and drinking some soda. I hadn't even noticed it. It was just a calendar with sunbathing people. My colleguas were really upset. Naked breasts on a picture in the kitchen and children around!!
I was wondering like: How do women breastfeed if children cannot be confronted with a naked breast or nipples? Do they blindfold them?
Good point. Europeans are much more relaxed about such things. When I was little (like 2, 3, 4 years old), I would sometimes take baths with my dad, and I suppose the same is true for many people over here. There was nothing weird about it at all, it was just easier doing it that way. When I was about 10 or 12, my mom, who went to sauna every Saturday for decades, took me along and, again, it was just normal and fun to me. As a kid, you have no weird attitudes towards nakedness and no concepts of sexuality yet, and I believe it's that sort of overprotective and uptight attitude Americans have about these things around their kids that results in those kids growing up to be equally uptight people.
@@TheAsphyx666 One of the things I don't get, is that a deep cleavage is not a problem in the USA but by accident showing a nipple is a major embarassement. Male nipples are not a problem though.
The funny part is that allthough I have no problems with nudity, I don't feel comfortable with showing any cleavage. It somehow feels as sexual signaling and I don't like to do that for all to see. Nudity as in a sauna, shower, sunbathing has nothing sexual for me.
@@okkietrooy6841 Yeah, people are weird, aren't they?
Sauna was awkward exactly once for me. When I met my college Professor and her secretary who gave me a deadline extension on a paper the day prior. She did tease me about it, but ended up saying "don't worry, even in a pinch, students are not required to stop living".
I think he was boning his secretary..
Who is this guy, and what happen to Tank?!🧐
Sounds like Tank, Setting is Tank's Studio, But this dude is missing the beard! WTH Tank!
He's Haley Joel Osment
And He shaved his hair 😭😂
It's clearly Nico, duh
Holy shit this is the first time I've seen you since you trimmed the beard! Looks awesome man. I had no clue id never seen this much of your face before. 😂
Congratulations Tank !!!
The Sauna experience is excellent to your mind and soul. Believe me, I know. As an Estonian, in here we have a heavy sauna culture, and even heavier in our neighbours, The Finns !!!!
The Finns are the origin of the word sauna and are the most hardcore about sauna culture. I'm curious if other peoples around the baltic sea also have their own words for it or if it's just sauna to you guys? Because in sweden it's such an old custom as well that we have our own word for it (bastu from the 15th century) instead of using the finnish one that is used internationally (sauna).
@@anarchclown Estonian word for sauna is saun
@@anarchclown well, it differs a little, because Finnish and Estonian language are cousins. When in Finnish it is "Sauna", in Estonian it is "Saun" without letter 'a'. And in Estonia we have smoke sauna, what differs Finnish sauna in many ways. In Short, I Love Sauna, Especially in winter, after cooking in sauna (110 c), you can jump in to icy snow pile.
@@TimoArula We have smoke saunas too in Finland, though they are just way less common than regular saunas.
@@porsimo really, I didn't know that (what a good neighbor I turned out to be ☺). To All fairness, the smoke saunas are not to common here anymore to... pity really, they are awesome.
Did a traditional smoke sauna in winter in Finland a couple of times (with aufguss, there were a couple of hardcore Germans in the group) at a certain point the walk through the snow and dip in the ice hole in the lake becomes something you very much crave.
You HAVE to visit the Sauna of the Therme Erding near Munich!
Biggest Sauna in the World as far as i know...
They have a section called "Stonehenge" and there the "Celtic Throne Sauna". The REALLY hard Ones sit on the Throne on Top of the Room.
Best Experience i ever had in that Sauna, was a "Rammstein Aufguss"! Three "Saunameister" waved with big Flags at us, and three different Rammstein Songs were played. In the End they threw the Leftovers of the crushed Ice in the Crowds...
One of the hottest, exhausting, but most FUN Infusions, i've ever had!
I'm a frequent Saunauser - two to three times a week (annual ticket at the Caprima in Dingolfing), and i nearly have no colds anymore. One of the good sideeffects of Sauna.
i'm starting to enjoy these types of videos (stories about the tours / your experiences in other countries / etc.) WAY more than i imagined. The cultural exchange is super interesting and i love listening to your stories. Thank you Tank ❤
Sauna -> Shower -> Relax -> Sauna -> Shower -> Relax...do this 3 oder 4 times and you feel like a new born, its amazing.
The relax part is most likely the hardest.
Calm yourself down to the point to lay down and enjoy the slow part
oh sweet you were at LAGO....right in my hometown. amazing that you liked it.
Woohooo Herne 😀
For any curious Americans, if you have Slavic friends here and they h.own their own house, vhances are at least some of them will have a sauna/banya in their backyard, it's worth asling around. There may or may not be tea and alcohol involved 😂
Not us West Slavs though.
@@richardaubrecht2822 Fair enough and also my condolences, they are a great bonding experience. What do you guys do instead?
@@zarinaromanets7290 We go for a beer, or for a lots of beers.
@@richardaubrecht2822 Can't go wrong with a beer! 🍻 Budmo!
About 7 months after working at a new place as manager, me and my boss were driving around the country meeting some clients.
We went to a Sauna on that trip, my first time to one actually.
You will accept your fate after 2 minutes and just really don't care anymore. As Tank mentioned the minor things you don't know, like placing a towel down before you take a seat were the only weird things later on.
Also if you ever go to a Sauna you might get a key for your locker, be sure not to let it touch your skin. 90°C _air_ is tolerable but _iron_ not so much, it's like touching the inside of an oven.
yes, guess you get some "nice" branding when you forgot to remove your jewelry ...
that would also be one of the problems when people would be sitting down without a towel, hitting a puddle of boiling sweat from the previous person or from yourself.
the 95°C of air temperature are easy at a low humidity of only 2%, and you sweat out a bucket of sweat when they do that _Aufguß_ which doubles humidity to 4% ...
I actually met my wife in a German sauna (we're from Germany). Thing is, being flirty does not work in a those saunas, it sort of breaks the code if that makes sense. We only really spoke after both of us were dressed again. 😁
Well you had a chance to receive an input information before even talking to her. Smart!
@@alexduraev Hehe, quite true. I didn't "buy the cat in the sack" as we say in Germany. 😂
@@climbscience4813 heh the Cat-in-a-sack saying is exactly the same in Russian
@@alexduraev 😁
Please give us more story's . Love them.
Loved the video Tank!
As an US-German myself, I had a good laugh. In part because my childhood was not only in the States but in the South, I´ve now lived in Germany for roughly 20 years.
I had to get over myself as a kid and was surprised a lot by what kids my age then thought was normal. To this day I´m aware how much of my american upbringing has influenced how I think.
On the other hand I have shocked my american family more than once, either because of how open I am about a lot of things, be it simply about going out to bars with friends or going everywhere with public transport.
I´ve fallen in love with Saunas and while most are textile free, there are some that are clothed and there are some that have sectioned days. And to be honest I think some of my family would have a heart attake if they knew.
My Dad (american) remembers some of the culture and forgets sometimes that I´m used to a lot of german stuff. I also may have shocked a partner (german) when we visted my family. Too be fair I warned him and he didn´t believe me and thought I exagerated. Well let´s say he needed a few days.
@@krissyv2046 I've never been to Australia. But, really? I thought that especially Bondi beach is "famous" for topless women. Is that all a myth then?🤔
Germany is by no means perfect. But the level of prudishness in the US is mindblowing to me. Society goes so far as to mutilate their baby boys with circumcision, to make it harder for them to masturbate.😵💫
@@krissyv2046 Well, there goes one positive image down the toilet... Sort of.
@@krissyv2046 Somehow Australia manages to keep this reputation of being "laid back" alive. I am old enough to remember this 80's song, "I am from a land down under".🙂
Happy to meet you at Sweden Rock, was nervous to call out but you were super sweet. Thanks alot for making my day!
For me as a fellow german with a small sauna in the basement who enjoyed sauna with my best friends since we were kids its so interesting to see your point of view in this. Thanks for sharing ❤
Just seeing this and am reminded of my first experience at a sauna in Germany. Our tour guide showed us the local pool and left those who just wanted to swim to do their thing. He then took the more adventurous of us upstairs where there was a full blown sauna level. One large sauna, one steam sauna, indoor hot tub kind of thing, two cold plunge baths, and an outdoor salt bath. None of us were prepared for the instantly naked tour guide showing us how everything worked. Nor were we prepared for the traditional 'Aufguss', which is a ten minute session in the sauna where they pour scented oils on the coals and fan the hot air around. It was wild. But after the initial awkwardness, you get to a stage of 'whatever' and just go with the flow. I will say though, if you ever make it back (which seems likely), you should definitely hit up Therme Erding just southeast of Munich. That place is bananas. It's in a blimp hanger, divided into 3 sections - Waterpark / saunas and pools (with clothing) / saunas, pools, and massages (sans clothing). There's something to be said about being in a sauna where they're cooking fresh bread and then swimming naked up to an in pool bar to have a pint......
I have often met American tourists who had trouble adjusting to our sauna culture, especially the fact that you normally mustn't wear anything in a German sauna. >
Yeah, the sleep I get after a sauna session is incredible. I absolutely love going to the spa. Hot sauna, cold water, good food and thermal baths are just a great combination, especially during the winter. And the "Aufguss" is always the best time. As soon as the humidity rises you sweat like crazy and after the shower you feel exhausted (in a good way), relaxed and so incredibly clean.
Good for you that you tried that. I've had colleagues from the US who couldn't bring themselves to try it. They don't know what they are missing.
Man Tank with the short beard looks younger but also more mature at the same time 😅
When i was in the german military i was on a training course in preparation for afghanistan and there were several nations, also us troops. In he evening we had a nice cold beer and went to the sauna. They had the exact same reaction at first
I just love how clean you feel after a good Sauna Day. You've never been really clean until every pore on your body has opened up and flushed out every bit of dirt and other filth. Like you really feel as if you could breathe through your skin.
My wife was very stressed out from work (company going bankrupt) last Friday so i said lets go do a sauna evening (There is a Spa 1km from our house with 9 saunas etc) . So we did and she was totally relaxed after and had a good sleep.
As a German who doesn't like Sauna i had a very similar experience in 2015 in Tokyo, when our host took us to the Onsen. It helped me that the culture was different to be able to just go with the flow and follow the instructions because eventhough the other poeple were looking towards our group it didn't feel judgemental but appreciative about our "effort" to enjoy a part of their culture.
Ооо, heard this story on twitch 😎
Just wanted to mention - you speak about Europe vs USA, but Europe is very diverse. Customs are very different from country to country
yeah, we don't do sauna where I live lol
yeah, in my country the closest we have to public saunas are spa salons, but everyone are in swimming suits and towels there. saunas themselves are quite common, but small ones, for small companies, and still people are mostly covered at least with towels, but that for sure depends on internal company relations and habbits
yeah, sauna wouldn't fly in poland either lol edit: that kind of a sauna
so i'd tell that we are somewhere in between germany and states in terms of nudity. in general we as nation ok with public nudity, but only gender-divided - for example men and women showers in sports clubs, etc
@@spkrash same here. rarely anyone makes a fuss in gender-divided changing rooms or bathrooms but most people won't walk around naked and chi chat and some try to stay covered (like you'd change in the middle of public beach). well strip, do our business and cover. and saunas are mostly found in spas or hotels and usually are for single-person experience only. so we're not super weird about nudity but we still consider it mostly a private thing.
Awesome story. Fun to here these culture stories and you having fun with the callboys.
I went to austria for a few seasons where we also went to saunas, which was pretty new to me. One of the first times, we were invited by the city's in the valley so all ski instructors new about the place and would recommend it to the guests. What i didnt really think about until i stood in one of those hot rooms, that also meant all the really really fit female ski instructors. Ofcourse it became normal fast but the first few minutes i really really had to think about margret tatcher naked on a cold rainy day.
Enjoyed hearing this story and I hope you’re enjoying your break!
Tank, thanks for sharing these experiences. Travel to other countries and engaging with the culture is a great way to open one's eyes and broaden the mind.
If you happen to be in Cologne try the Neptunbad. It's a pretty good Sauna/ Spa with also a Steam Sauna and a cool music pool, but you only hear the music, if your head/ ears are under water. The water is pretty warm, you just grab a pool noddle, put your ears under water and float around. It's sooo relaxing.
to me, sauna is like a quality of life feature. going to sauna for an afternoon, i feel like reborn.
Really wanna try and get over there just for the experience. Thanks for sharing 🤘🏻
Okay, it might be just me having a unique experience, but my parents would allow me and my brother to go with them in the Sauna when we were just little kids. Like literally 3/4 years old. We would sit at the lowest steps or at the floor and leave once it got too hot for us. Our parents would regularly check in with us and ask us questions about how we would feel. So we were fairly used to it and allowed to go on our own at just 10 years old. It was a great experience, getting to know your own body and it was great for me in particular, because I struggle with raspiratory infections a lot and going to the sauna, heating up the body to an artificial fever and then cooling down again is great to fight off any illness before it can really break out. It also helps with my blood circulation issues and very low blood pressure.
Aufguss sauna is amazing and relaxing! Definately one of my favourites! Happy you got to experience it!
Greetings from Sweden!
I was recently in Cologne in sauna and it was super cute how they had that specially trained dude to do the aufguss :D But... we were not allowed to drink beer nor talk. In Finland we just follow set of firm rules:
1) You pour water - you are last one to leave
2) while sitting on lower levels - you do not pour water
3) you piss on rocks - you'll end up behind the sauna
4) you shit on rocks - you'll end up behind the sauna
5) you body shame - you'll be used as stoking material
and finally 6) you do not nail the planks from above for obvious reasons
So lucky for you that it was a sauna with age restrictions. There are a lot that also have kids in them. 😉 It's more a "kids are loud and annoying" thing - when there is age restrictions it's because of that, that the location is more relaxation focused. There are "Thermen" (Spaß) with a family focus.
1-2 weeks ago here we had "Lange Saunnacht". 9 hrs Sauna with 8 infusions (Aufgüsse). So nice 😍
Growing up in the north of Germany, I remember as a kid beeing in the sauna with the adults at a public spa now and then. As long as the kids are not annoying the rest by being wild (it's supposed to be a relaxing experience), they could be there as well. And why shouldn't they?
Looks good with the shorter beard!
I personally love saunas and go with friends.
Ah! "The termen" we have those in the Netherlands as well.
Now you understand why lots of European people find the American way of thinking about this weird.
Your story is amazing ❤
Aufguss is amazing for the senses!
There are often mixed saunas in Gyms aswell in Germany. I started going this year and it feels amazing. In my opinion it also does wonders for bodydysmorphic tendencies since nobody judges how you look. It's a place for the sole purpose to sit and sweat together.
Can highly recommend!
German here, we used to visit public saunas, but they are quite costy. Took it by the Finnish example and got one at home. We go once a week. We do dress with a nice felt hat to keep the heat of our heads, though.
Rain after being in the sauna is awesome, only snow is better.
When I lived in Germany as a kid I remember during the summer a lot of parents would allow their kids to swim or run through the water naked and it was normal. Going to the sauna, or group showering was just normal and no one cared, and then I moved back to the US and everything was really prudish and super separated. It was a really humbling experience when no one cared.
Well, my wife and I once walked into a sauna in Bavaria with about 10-12 people inside - and we were the only ones naked. It was our culture shock as Germans in Germany.
I love the Lago Therme. It's great and it's not only a sauna. There are outdoor pools, indoor pools and a few salt water pools and one with artificial waves. Oh and Tank got the full shock intentionally, because there are gender based and textile saunas in Lago where they could have gone to. You have four sauna areas in Lago - A male and a female area with 4-6 saunas each, a textile (swimsuit) sauna area with two low temperature saunas and the biggest area is the mixed sauna with about 12 sauna with temperatures from 60-110C (140-230F). The mixed area has a big sauna garden with paths. Each area has it's own locker area. I prefer the mixed gender, because it has the most options of saunas to choose from and I prefer the really hot Finnish saunas that are in the garden and are are over 100C.
To explain Lago a bit. You pay and enter a locker area where you leave your street clothes and change into swimsuits or just a bathrobe if you only want to go to the sauna. Then you walk through a shower area and the pool areas and at the end there are doors that led to the different sauna areas and behind these doors is another locker area where you can leave your dry towel, bathrobe, swimsuit etc. and then you can shower and go into the sauna.
About only adults - no. Younger can go to the sauna, too. But if I remember it right a kid should be at least 4 years old because of health reasons. Younger kids can't regulate their body temperature enough to handle a sauna. If you take a younger kid with you they tell you you do it on your own risk. And another reason is that sauna is for you to relax and if the kids isn't able to be quiet for some time they ask you to leave the sauna area. Because of noise there are some thermae that forbid kids under 12years to enter at all and not only the sauna area.
The 2 clubs in my city both are 16+, one of them textile the other not so depends on the club I guess
@@pdoge sorry but what you said made me cringe - you know a sauna 'club' in Germany is a place for adults(18+) with girls for paid intercourse (to say it in YT friendly terms)...
Sauna is often limited in age if it is a) only a sauna (no pools for swimming etc.), b) if it is in a spa town/health resort (Kurort/Bad), c) if it is privately owned and sometimes if there is another sauna without age limit. Many sauna/pools areas are owned by the city or the local public utility company and are semi age limited (age 4+/diaper-free)
@@seanthiar Lol no. "Oase Wellness & Fitness Club", where I have been like 20 times before they closed down for good 2 years ago, was definetely private owned and had absolutely no paid intercourse up on their price list. It had a gym, IIRC 12 Saunas and 3 pools, and required 16+ or 6+ with a parent/guardian as well as the ability to swim freely
@@pdoge The common used definition of the term saunaclub is different from your club and that is what I talked about....
@TankTheTech. It's nice to hear you say "After a while, i didn't care anymore", because that's so true. It's awkward the first time for like the first half hour or so. Once you notice that no one is like staring or so because you're naked, you start caring less and eventually you're also walking around completely naked without a care in th world.
I wanted to mention that some saunas do have a restaurant where you eat and drink naked (off course with a towel on the chair or just wearing the bathrobe.
Your next visit you'll probably just feel awkward for the first 5 minutes and all other sauna visits after that, there won't be much awkwardness anymore.
Wait until you've had a FINNISH wood burning sauna, FInland is after all the country where the sauna is originally from! Also it's not pronounced sawna, it's saUna
I do have to give props to the Germans though if they consider 90 degrees sauna "starting easy" I have had saunas even hotter than that and I can handle it for a few minutes, but I do not find it enjoyable once you get above 90, I usually prefer keeping it around 70 and staying in there for longer instead
Sauna is EXTREMELY relaxing and very very healthy in several different ways, it helps with losing weight, decreases the risk of any sort of heart disease etc....
I was there with my school class way way back and I remember we were chased out because we brought towels in. :D I'm from the nordics so while sauna is common where I live at least, it was always just bringing a towel in for optional modesty & for seating. I honestly still find it nicer to sit on a towel, but I don't really mind either. I agree with the temperature though, it's so nice to stay longer instead.
80°C is the sweetspot for me
As a German, 90 degrees is what is expected when you go to the sauna, it's more or less the standard here. We do have some 70 degrees saunas but those are the exception.
@@unicorntulkas wow, I didn't know you guys were that much into sauna, you're tougher than the swedes if 90° is the standard! 😂 But I doubt you have more saunas than cars, like we do here in Finland 😂
@@AHVENAN We Germans have more cars then people. At least it feels like it. No way we're beating you on saunas per elk.
I can only reccomend the saune Tank and the boys went to. The lago is such a little gem and I've went there many times with some of my friends. Come winter time, we used to go there once a month and have a very relaxing time. They also hold events there, where they do stuff like finnish and russian sauna, where you get different infusions and different additives like salt or honey to treat your skin with. Really looking foward to going there again come winter time :)
When Tank put in the screenshot of the map I instantly knew where the boys took him :D I'm very happy he had such a good time here and enjoyed the Ruhrpott in all it's glory. Including the currywurst.
Wow. Congrats. Sauna is amazing when enjoyed like that. I especially love to go in winter when the outdoor area is covered with snow (which still does happen once in a while here in the Taunus area) . It´s wonderfull to relax outside.
Love the stories and being able to actually see your smile with the shorter beard.
You look happy and healthy 😊 and props on just going for it with the german, the best way to learn I think.
Enjoy the home time with the family 🫶🏼
Clearly hanging out with Nico has had an influence on Tank. The two beard bros. Well trimmed beard suits you very well.
If you ever travel to Finland, then do try our sauna culture as well. The saunas are not so much different than Germany, but we have separate dressing rooms for women and men. And we don't have this aufguss tradition.
I'm from Poland and I don't go to saunas very often, but basically most of your description about the situation is how I feel too. Especially nowadays, when saunas become more common, people are more open about the fact they don't like to be seen naked and stay with the towel on or see other people naked (which often means they don't use saunas that often lol.) Back in the days in Europe, it seems like people were afraid to speak more openly and actually say out loud if they felt uncomfortable, especially when saunas felt like something that was fancy and not for everyone. I guess it's mostly personal thing, not that much of a cultural difference.
So as a part time worker in Spa both Walter and Aufgussmeoster (Infusion Master) that was really enjoyable to watch and hear. For reference in a sauna it is recommended to stay in there for about twelve to fifteen minutes deomding on the temperature, but if you are practiced and well hydrated you can go quite long. So sometimes if I
go to the sauna and it is very full I go in like 15 minutes before the infusion and go out after the infusion ends for about 30 to 40 minutes in total which again is nitnrecommended for the average sauna guest but yeah gotta decide getting a place or boiling.
Also 90 degrees is not really beginner friendly would have advised to go with 70 degrees first.
We absolutely do have changing rooms where people change before kids in Germany. These changing rooms are usually not mixed, but the kids are mixed (moms go with their girls AND boys, dads go with their boys AND girls). When I went swimming with my father as a little girl, it was totally normal for me to be with him in the men’s changing room and see naked men there - and of course they did see me naked too.
Edit: Usually kids (at least from the age of three upwards) are allowed in our saunas. Yes, in our textile free mixed saunas. I never visited a German sauna where kids were not allowed. In my favourite sauna I see a lot of kids of all ages.
Learning about other cultures is amazing and expends the mind.
The beard! 😲
As cool and stylish the beard was, you look easily 10 years younger. :)
Good for you and I'm happy you had a great experience.
😂 As a German who loves going to the sauna in winter it was such a delight to listen to your experience. If you ever get the chance go to H2O in Herford, NRW. The sauna park will blow your mind. They have saunas I‘ve never seen anywhere else. Like a special effect sauna, where the program changes in heat, sound, light etc. and they also have a 360° Sauna with a huge screen in it and you have your lower legs in water and so on. I love it there so much. 😁
that tells how mature a culture is.
Ich freue mich das du die deutsche Sauna so magst und das du dich getraut hast auf deutsch dein Essen zu bestellen. Großartig!
I enjoyed your account of the Sauna. Yes it’s very natural for us and we don’t give it a second thought! Glad you enjoyed your sauna experience. It’s the best way to get rid of stress and very cleansing.
I‘m German and in elementary we had swim classes. We had group changing rooms for the entire class where we all got completely undressed and changed the way we would at home. At the age of 9 I moved abroad briefly to an American school and the biggest culture shock I had was all of the girls in the girls’ changing room disappearing into toilet cabins to change or putting on their swimsuits over their underwear and doing weird acrobatics to then remove their underwear. I thought it was so weird. Even to this day I don’t really understand.
I'm an European living in Seattle currently. I go to a spa where most people are naked and facilities are not segregated by gender. It has a sauna and a hot tub. There's people of all ages, and many are regulars. The hot tub is outside,so you can sit in it while it rains. Your observations are valid for many places in the US, but the liberal states on the coasts don't share that culture. It might be because they are less religious. I'm not saying the naked saunas are standard, but even at the gym that I go sometimes that has a small sauna (which is in the bathroom, which is segregated by gender), not all women are covered.
Here in Finland sauna is often around 110-120 Celsius degree at the end of the day if people keep adding wood. At that point nails in the lauteet (bench/whatever) burn like hell if you sit on them. Happens in old saunas often. Almost can hear the sizzling.
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Greetings from Germany. Hope you can come back for the next EC tour!
Oh, and I absolutely love your shaved beard! Looks a lot better (to me) than the long thing you had before. 👍👍
Yay more fun stories!
I've heard so many stories from European bands that first come here and the nudity thing here almost gets them in trouble. Nergal from Behemoth said first American tour they stop the van by a lake during the daytime they just strip down and go running for the lake and their tour manager (American) stopped them and was like you can't do that here. I have a friend from the Netherlands and he always talks about how uptight and weird we all are because he just went to the hot tub at our old condos naked. Americans are so uptight and male everything weird. I have never been to Europe yet but I can't wait to experience people that don't go out of their way to make everything so weird.
Everyone is on equal terms in the sauna.
At Sinsheim Sauna they do a techno Aufguss... craziest shit ever, but amazing lol
Nice you had fun here 😂 in the Sauna the humidity is more important then the tempeture, in a dry Sauna you can take more temp
past alfredo with currywurst sounds like a killer combo, tbh. make your own pasta carbonara type
I've got another one for you... Cap d' Agde on the French Mediterranean Sea coast in summer. We just returned from a beach vacation there. 1 mile of beautiful sandy beach, I estimated between 15.000 and 20.000 nudist people on a hot Sunday. ;-) I did my walk on the waterline every morning, without cloths, sun on your skin, feet in the water and a little breeze around the balls. Good fun.
In Belgium you also have large sauna areas.
When I go with friends we always make it a day trip. Arrive around 11am and leave at closing time, for example 9pm.
Sometimes we go for a couple of hours after work.
Everyone comes there to relax and enjoy. no one is concerned with the nudity. The infusion sessions are great, and indeed sometimes hot, but you are reborn afterwards. What is also nice are the quiet spaces where people can read or take a nap. And of course the environment where you are, namely nature, makes you relax even more.
Of course, there are also people here who do not go to the public sauna at all, but prefer a private sauna or they go to the public sauna on the day where you have to wear swimwear. Most saunas have a swimsuit day😅
So great that you were able to experience this and enjoyed it.
Short beard Tank is something I was not expecting to see, but I gotta say it fits ya buddy
Sauna.. the beatiful agony :). Thanks for sharing that story.
12 minutes sounds like an eternity in 105C lmao I wouldn't even last 12 minutes in 105F
Awesome 😄
If you ever get the chance to visit the Sauna in the Therme Erding near Munich: They have a Viking themed Sauna where they do the Aufguss to music like Valhalla Calling and not with a towel but with a giant flag.
I just wrote something similar here... 😉
Happy you had a nice first German Sauna experience!
A nice little culture shock 😉
Greetings from Germany
I saw word sauna in title: "Yayy! New Finland video!"
Video is about German sauna: "Oh, never mind"
It took me a few days to click on this as I didn't recognize you and didn't know why TH-cam was showing me this.
As for sauna, sounds like heaven.
It's probably been 40 years since I had a sauna. My dad was 100% Finn, his aunt had a sauna in the basement. As a child I stayed there almost every weekend as that was where my grandfather lived. They would light the sauna at least once a month and it was so heavenly. Throwing water on the rocks was fun. There was also a shower right there in the sauna so we could rinse off with cold water at the end if we wanted to.
Closest I get now is take a super hot / long shower and fill the bathroom with steam.
Then go stand out on the back steps in nothing but shorts and slippers in the dead of winter.
As far as naked in front of people, that doesn't bother me. We always showered in gym class starting in JR high school and most weren't hung up about it.
I miss those showers as well. The ones with so much pressure that it almost feels like it could take your skin off.
just another instance of tank being an utter chad. great video, very entertaining.
An extra like for bravery 😁👍
You went in unaware. When realizing what it is all about you then could have left, tho. But didn't.
Glad you enjoyed it in the end.😎
I lived in the Ruhrpott area from 2000 to 2009 in a city called Herne literally around the corner from the place you visited (the spa is called "Lago - Die Therme" and is located in the Gysenbergpark). I visited this place quite often and really enjoyed it every single time.
There are two areas:
- The textile spa area, in which you find various pools (e.g. 2 different saltwater pools with different salt concentrations (I think they were 6 and 9% salt concentration, if I remember correctly)), a wave pool, water slide, restaurant, beauty area, solariums, etc. pp.
- The textile free area
Here you will find the saunas (both indoors and outdoors), relaxation zones (including a relaxation zone with waterbeds), massage beds, etc. pp. The large pool in the outdoor area is not a saltwater pool. There are also many loungers in the outdoor area, which you can also use.
There are a couple of spas (in German "Therme" (singular), "Thermen" (plural)) overall in Germany. The world's largest spa is located in Erding in Bavaria (28 different waterslides, 24 saunas, etc. pp). Unfortunately I haven't been there myself, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.
What’s weird is showering with swimsuits, not being naked in the Sauna! The gym I used to frequent had their own spa with different saunas, small cold water pool etc, ( the Netherlands) and for the ladies they actually had a ladies day! All that was required was the use of a towel to sit on and a bathing robe for the rest moments.
OMG i saw the thumbnail and had no idea why i'm subscribed, then i realized it's tank without long beard.
on the topic, i'm German, we have a sauna in our basement and i used it since i was like 12, recently i went to Japan and Iceland and on both trips i got naked with strangers, in Japan the Onsen and Iceland the hot springs.
i swear i don't choose my holidays for that...
It makes me really happy that you have such good experiences in Europe/ Germany to the extent of even thinking about moving :)
I was on rock am Ring a few weeks ago and saw electric callboy. Such an energetic and fun performance! Great work!
Yo Tank, luv your content and more importantly...u such a nice guy. U were in my hometown...Herne, in the Lago😂🤘
I was with band MEMBERS. Yes you were, you were indeed.
I live part time in Kyrgyzstan and going to the Banya/Sauna is like where all the dudes go to chill. You basically drink a shitload of vodka and go to the sauna. There are also many times women called to keep you company in the Russian tradition. The Banya is fucking awesome. I had the flu and went to the banya, drank some vodka, sat in the banya, and felt amazing.
Yeah, especially if it’s vodka with pepper