other than that there is a popular game called "rundlauf" that´s played on a pingpongtable. and it hurts a lot less if you hit your hip on a rounded corner than on an angled one...
ping pong tables in public areas are often made from concrete, cause they are outside all over the year ... so hitting the edge of it can be very painful ... to avoid injuries it´s better to make the edges round ... and (honestly) it doesn´t change the game too much
Americans eat no bread. They eat a mix of sawdust with motoroil and bleach. The bleach is there to get there bread-replacement white again after frying it in motoroil.
It amazes me how the words „Bayern Munich“ don’t ring any bell with you . I’m confident that on every other continent on this planet this club is known to at least the majority of people , just like Real Madrid, ManU, or Milan.
I believe Bayern is nowadays more known than Milan but still a little less than Real Madrid and Manchester United. Although United doesn’t deserve to be more known when taking into account how poorly the club performs 😂 But people in Asia still love them, so I assume they’re still mote known than Bayern. Bayern on the other hand is probably together with Real Madrid the most popular soccer club in North America that is from outside the US. I think they have the biggest number of fan clubs in the US compared to any other soccer club.
Two things that contribute to the US having a more obese population. Car dependent sprawl, hardly anyone walks or uses bicycles but more importantly the food in the US is severely over-processed.
@@strange144 While true, bad diet choices in the US aren't always a choice. Even if you believe you are getting healthier food. Getting 20+ ingredient bread isn't my idea of healthy. It might be shelf stable, but so will be the person who eats that shit long enough.
The fact abouts germans not doing enough sports in school is really misleading. Typically Sport in Germany is centered around sports clubs. There are nearly no school or university linked sports Teams whatsoever. If you want to do a sport and compete in it, you join a club. There is no link to the school or university you're attending. That also means next to no sport based scholarships etc.
Any statistics for that claim? Are we only weighting in club sports activities or active activity time like bicycling, swimming, running, playgeound etc. alltogether? If your claim was true, wouldn't child obesity tendency rates in Germany be way higher than in the US?
Because of the club culture everyone who wants to can play a sport on their level. You pay contribution (a fee) abdvyou are assigned to a team. And you can enter eith that team a competition. If your team hs the champignons at the end of the season, the team gets promotion to ths bwxt level of competition and if you end last the team will go to a lower level competition. The winner of the highest level of competition will be the National champion. In this way anyone can compete and competitive are not limited to schools. You also do not need to try out for a team in order to be able to play sports.
The lack of sports programs in Germany needs to be put into context. We have an incredible number of sport clubs that fill the gaps. It's a totally different system with less streamlined goal oriented programs but maybe a greater variety.
I see two issues though, compared to school sports clubs: 1) It usually costs money to enter 2) Even if fees are waived, it's still a pain in the ass to get to a different place to participate. That's why I'm a big supporter of school sports clubs, as we usually see in countries like the US and Japan. It massively drops the hurdle to enter a club or try different kinds of sports. Of course, there are also disadvantages. It makes it harder to establish amateur adult sports clubs, since state-sponsored sports facilities focus on schools which are usually not available for working adult people (maybe they should make it available though for special times of the day and week.)
Biathlon is a mix of skiing and schooting. It has a Military history and is practised all over Europe. Also, Fußball is as important to us, as football 🏈 is for you. Greetings from Germany
Fußball in Germany is more like Football, Baseball and Basketball in the US combined. It is waaaay more popular than any other sport that comes second.
6:49 The table tennis table has rounded corners because it is on a children's playground. Simply to minimize injuries...The official tables are classic with sharp corners
Especially if you consider, how kids are playing - in a group with bigger balls and bare hands - and running to the other side in a circle after hit the ball once. This way, all of them can play together without waiting to much or (at breaks in school with therefore very limited time) haven't being able to play at all
@@Syndur NFL is a bit difficult... but I'm pretty sure everyone heard about the Chicago Bulls and maybe the L.A. Lakers. The 90s Bulls with Jordan, Rodman and Pippen are worldwide like the 70s Bayern with Beckenbauer, Müller and Maier in Germany.
Croatian /Italian here. I finished my last year of high school in the US and you can only imagine the questions I was asked (along with three other exchange students from Europe-a Dutch, a Ukrainian and a German girl) . I remember standing with the German girl in the hallway and some guys came up to us and asked us if you could buy a Mercedes in Germany. I think her soul left her body and I couldn't stop laughing. They are really focused on their country and think it's the only thing that exists but we could be focused on European stuff also and not know anything about America but we still do. 🤷♀️
@@Marina_-_- Willful ignorance (united with arrogance, self-righteousness and egomania) is a great problem in the US, but of course also in other countries...
Fun fact: Your favorite german sportsman Simon Lizotte dont even has a article in the german wikipedia. I think 99% of the Germans never heard of him or of disc golf.
Don't forget! The German Ice Hockey Team won the Silver Medal 2018 at the Olympic Games,it was sensational!The Gold Medal won Russia 2018 in Pyeongchang,South Korea!
The channel DW (Deutsche Welle) is actually the public foreigners' channel of Germany financed by taxes from the tax budget. But it's not the same as other public channels in Germany, the other public stations don't get financed by taxes but by a monthly fee every household in Germany has to pay directly to the public stations. Just so you know why that channel provides so much information about Germany, that's the purpose of it.
I grew up in a German ice hockey town, where about a third of the kids played soccer and another third street hockey in the summer and ice hockey in the winter. (The latter could be difficult, having only one small open-air stadium at that time.) Nowadays the town's team is playing in the profi league. 6:07 It is a .22 rifle. Biathlon originates in Scandinavia and the military traditions of ski-soldiers esp. in Norway and Finland. 7:05 Some public ping-pong tables in German parks have rounded corners to minimize risk of injury (even if that is against the rules).
What makes the difference is probably that Americans never walk anywhere. Here in Europe we need to walk more often to go shopping or meet friends. That's definetely because cars are more dominant in the US. Many people here live without a car, sometimes even on the countryside just because of much better public transport and bicycle opportunities. You should check out Peter Davies RU-vid channel, he exposes the US car culture and compares it to Europe.
As Germany is usually among the top nations for bob sledding, skeleton etc. I think becoming German will probably hinder you more than anything. Look up the Jamaican Bob Sled team of Calgary 1988 That was the first time they competed and they (understandably so as a tropical nation) had little skill in bob sledding. They didn’t even finish bc they crashed so much and had to walk to the finish line. So I suggest becoming Jamaican or some other tropical island and competing for them, your chances of making it to the national team there are probably the highest lmao
8:20 because a calory input of 4000kcal is normal for US Americans. In Germany the recommended energy input is 2200 kcal. That's one of some reasons. Also there are also oberweight people in Germany too.
Yep I've become overweight since last year, sitting at home because of the pandemic wrecked me. Not walking as much everyday cause I did have less work days in the office caught up with me while keeping the same caloric intake xD.
We've rented a Schrebergarten at the beginning of the pandemic and I lost 50 kilograms 😁 Search for a garden. If you can't rent one, ask an old member of your community if they need help with gardening and when it's come to harvest, you part it 60:40 for you.
He knows. He mentioned and featured NALF in his videos. It''s an American guy who came to the south of Germany to play for one of the top american football teams in Germany. He also does videos about living in Germany.
In words an American could understand: Bayern Munich are to the Bundesliga what the New York Yankees are to Major League Baseball. The difference being that unlike the Yankees, who have won almost 30 World Championships, but none in the past 10 years, Bayern Munich have now won the German football championship ten times in a row. In fact, the Bundesliga ("Federal League") is not even 60 years old, yet Bayern have won the title an astonishing 32 times - basically, you expect them to win before the season even starts, and they usually do. The biggest difference in sports between the US and Germany (or really, the US and everywhere else) is that in the US, high schools and colleges have sports teams, and some schools can basically be called sports franchises with a few books thrown in - nobody knows much about the academic achievements of, say, Duke or Alabama, but everyone in the US knows Coach K and Nick Saban, right? In Europe, we have PE at school, but that's it. If you want to play football or basketball or do gymnastics, you don't do it at school, you join a club. And in fact, Bayern Munich is the biggest club of its kind, with 300.000 (!!!) members.
@@vurmitza I don't think so. It's about the best against the best. That other teams don't cut it, is hardly the problem of FCBM. It's about seeing top performance to then determine the ultimate team of them all. Without a leviathan like FCBM, the others wouldn't have this high bar for skill, this way they will be more motivated to be even better next time.
@@Lord_Juvens The problem is money. The more successful clubs get more of it, which enables them to buy better players - which is *why* FCBM wins so often. Capitalism at work.
@@KaiHenningsen You can always claim money, but then there's plenty of other clubs with plenty of money and they are not keeping up either. FCBM has been successfull and investing in new talent since many decades, so although your argument is true, it also ignores long term planning and investing, which many other clubs try but usually fail at.
She forgot a little thing about German football! With 7.1 million members of the affiliated clubs, the DFB is the largest national sports association in the world. The non-profit organization is based in Frankfurt. The DFB is the umbrella organization of five regional and 21 state associations, which in turn consist of around 24,500 football clubs.
Das ist der Grund, warum ich keinen Fussball mehr verfolge. Die Kommerzialisierung ist abartig. Man kommt auch einfach nicht drum herum. Die Sport News sind quasi Fussball News mit ein bisschen Beiwerk aus den anderen Sportarten. Ich habe mal probiert Google News beizubringen, dass ich keine Fussball News möchte. Unmöglich! Zunächst bekam ich Bundesliga News (Ergebnisse und Spielberichte) angezeigt -> weniger Meldungen wie diese angeklickt. Dann wandelten sich die Meldungen zu Transfer News, Trainer und Spieler Diskussionen (Wer wird wann und wie rausgeschmissen, oder performt gut/schlecht -> weniger Meldungen wie diese angeklickt. Dann bekam ich Champions League Berichterstattung -> weniger Meldungen wie diese angeklickt. Gefolgt von Transfer News, Trainer und Spieler Diskussionen auf der Ebene -> weniger Meldungen wie diese angeklickt. Dann kam 3. und teils 4. Liga auf Regional-Ebene, anstatt andere Sportarten... dann hab ich nach stundenlangem Wegklicken frustriert aufgegeben. Selbst das liken und gezielt Suchen anderer Sportarten bewirkt nix. Es ist zum verzweifeln!
Maybe your confusion derives from the US being the only country where people associate 'foot'ball with some kind of armored field wrestling with a ball...! 🤔😜😂
The obesity in the U.S. comes down to food (food quality standards, local availability of food, deliberate misinformation about healthy eating by the food industry) and lack of incidental physical activity (infrastructure and city planning actively hostile to walking/cycling as a means of transportation) - at least that's my guess.
@@TheRockkickass There is much more money and effort put into development and careers of US sportsmen and sportswomen I think. In Germany you find that maybe in football but not so much in all the other sport types.
Eishockey? Minimum 4 Player in NHL. Marco Sturm, Boston - Uwe Krupp, Atlanta - Olaf Kölzig, Toronto - Jochen Hecht, Buffalo. Here is not Eishockey with heated seats. Some stadiums are open and heat comes only from "Glühwein" oder "Grog".
Next year there will be again Women's World Cup in soccer. I recommend that you watch it. If it's like the European Championship that just ended a few weeks ago in terms of the level of play (and I assume it is), you'll really have fun!
I grew up in a very ice hockey centric German town and my parents were actually a sort of ice hockey hooligans in the 80s 😂 think my dad got imprisoned once for a night and my mom left him there because he was so drunk.
5:30 A lot of Americans have german roots, but the main waves of migration happened before association football was a thing, the same ist true for Italy and Great Britain. Association football proper starts in 1863, American Football rules start being codified in 1867. It takes about 50 years for Association football to really spread in Europe, with most countries having regular games in the early 20th century, the first professional league starting in the 1920s. In South America the sport spreads a bit later, gaining popularity in the early 20th century. Association fottball was introduced to the Summer Olympics in 1900, but it took until 1924 for any non-european teams to compete (Uruguay, Egypt, Turkey and the USA) and Uruguay actually won the tournament.
In northern Germany (Hamburg) many people also play field hockey and tennis and since the land in the north is super flat we get an extra two weeks holiday dedicated to skiing (Skiholiday) every march
Your question about how to become a bobsleder remembered me somehow on the legendary jamaican bobsled team. Maybe you know the disney movie "cool runnings". It is about a real story. An other interesting story, you maybe want to look up and maybe react to is the story about Kurt Landauer. He has been president of the football club Bayern Munich as the nazis came to power. He was a jew and got in an concentation camp. He managed to get out and flew to switzerland. After the war he came back for a visit, but he already had a ticket to the USA in his pocket, where he wanted to live. But he stayed, became president of bayern Munich again and campained for the germans to be allowed to play football again in the american sector. He even managed to rebuild the destroyed stadium together with the rival and former nazi supporting club 1860 Munich. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0C3dFiVBbXw.html
There was also German culture in the US. German immigrants founded Turnvereine (Turner) to practice gymnastics. In addition, beer was brewed and the German language was cultivated. But with the two world wars it was no longer possible to live German culture in the US. Only English was spoken in public and the German language was no longer passed on to the children. Alcohol was also banned as a heavy drug. Today some remember that their grandfathers and grandmothers were German, Dutch or from Austria or Swiss. Germans (Deutsche) and Dutch are often confused abroad because it was similar up until the 1500s. Austrians and many Swiss speak German, but politically different. Switzerland has been independent since around 1291.
Why we are here in Germany not more fat? First: There ARE a LOT of FAT children (and adults, of course). Second: Perhaps the German food might be healthier ..... 😉
Yeah, but despite the numbers mentioned in the video, less than the US. I think Germans are on average moving more in their daily life (cycling, public transport etc). So, while not much sport, still some exercise.
Are there any "Breitensport" mass sports clubs in the U.S. where you can play sports with other people as an adult without professional ambitions? ...excluding the local tennis and golf club. In Germany, you can go to one of the local sports clubs and see if the sports they offer suit you. Even my mom has been doing gymnastics for the elderly for over 10 years.
our "Ping Pong" tabels in public parks often have round corners, because there is a popular variety of play called "Rundlauf/Running Around" where on one side there is one player and on the other side every other one in a line, doesn't matter how many. The first player of the line starts to play the ball to the single one and starts running to the place of the single player, while that one returns and runns to the end of the line. Then the second player in the line, now number one returs to the single player side and so on. every time a player misses his/her shot he/she is eliminated and the game starts again without the eliminated, till only 2 remain. these play a little final of who wins 2( sometimes 3) balls first. then reset with all players. hope you get the picture and greetings from Germany And your question of where to go to learn bob sled driving or most of winter sports in general, there are several sport academies (mostly federal sponsored) for that in the mountainous federal states of Germany, where one can join in a club.
"Rules" for Rundlauf seem to have slightly changed over the years. When I played it at school over 30 years ago with half of my class mates we usually spread more to both sides of the table tennis table at the beginning. Otherwise player one has hardly a chance of catching the ball when he doesn't play a "slow game" and player 2 & 3 play a good/mean game. Btw "every other" means "jeder zweite" (and this doesn't make any sense to me) whereas "alle anderen" (what I think you meant to say) translates as "all the rest of (them)". 😉
06:00 maybe you've heard the names Kölzig, Sturm, Krupp(Stanley Cup winner), Hecht, Seidenberg(Stanley Cup winner), Draisaitl(2020 regular season mvp), Greiss and some more like Grubauer or Künhackl (both are Stanley Cup winners).
I loved Simon Lizotte the moment I saw him for the first time, He did the Simon-thing and took a route nobody else did and just crushed every hole. Didn't knew he was German for like a few month, obviously he is my favorite Player rn.
5:30 well actually... from wikipedia: "German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁiˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the United States Census Bureau in its American Community Survey.[1] German Americans account for about one third of the total population of people of German ancestry in the world."
The round pingpong tables are for safety. Some kindergardens or elementary school have them because a overprotective mother prolly complaint about it. Most parents i know hate them, here in germany and always rant about them. In my old school they put cushions on the edges because some stupid kid ran into it and got hurt. Football/Soccer is really really huge in germany the stadiums are almost everytime sold out, depending on the club.
Please react to european Fan singing in football (soccer) games. This will be fun for you and you will recognize how big it is in Europe. German kids get less of offers in sports than US Kids, but they mostly (obesity is also a problem in Germany!) eat healthier(Portion size and vegetables)than kids in the USA and walk more per day(for example to school or the local playgrounds). So even, if they are not able to join a local sports group after school, they can be more active.
German bobsleders closely work together with institutes and experts for material research. So in the competition they always have the most modern sleds helping for the decisive tenth-second.
One big sport in germany that was shown but not mentioned in the video is: Swimming While only few people do it competetively swimming is really big in the country. Going to the "public swimming pool" is seen as a compleatly normal free time activity and basically every mid sized town (20.000+) has at least one all year public swimming pool facility. Additionally there are smaller public swimming pools in a lot of mid sized villages that are open during the summer season. This is partly a legacy from the german empire, because the swimming culture got a massive boom when germany started to build a major navy. As you might have noticed even before WW1 most germans were not exactly living near the coastline so the navy needed more people able to swimm for to become naval personal. Also the navy was a huge nationalism and prestige thing and the only military force that was truly "german"/federal until 1918 and not state based (The "German army" in 1914 was more several state armies under unified command). The swimming culture survived the end of the german empire becuase the nazis later on also massively funded it because swimming is arguably the best sport to keep a population "fit" do to it training basically all body parts at the same time. The nazis were really hardcore into sports as part of their racial superiority bullshit. So even today most schools include swimming classes (eather at a school swimming pool or a city one) so the population doesnt drown and going to public swimming pools in general is still a big thing, although most see it more as a leizure activity like going to the beach nowadays :)
Especially in winter sports, there were some weird things during the Olympics. In 1988 there were two of them. 1. Eddie the Eagle - an English ski jumper who qualified for the Olympics only because he was the only ski jumper in England. He finished last everywhere, but the public loved him. 2. And you don't even need snow and ice in the country to learn and train bobsleigh. 🤣 Check out the movie "Cool Runnings" and see how the Jamaican bobsled team made it to the Olympics. They weren't good but hey everyone was rooting for them just because of their will to make it. What you find so interesting in the movie with the prone shooters is biathlon. A mixture of cross country skiing and shooting.
6:59 no. This is a public table tennis table, with a bit rounded corners so that it's not that painful if you bumb on the corner (they're often made from concrete)
What she didnt mentioned is the amount of people going to the gym in germany. In 2022 around 11 Million men visited the gym regularly or from time to time(which is 31 percent of the male population in germany) and 26 percent of the women. There are also over 1.3 Million active members over 70 years(around 7 percent). And the industry is growing anf growing, many gyms of way too crowded and have more members than they could handle(especially the cheap ones). You also see a lot of people doing yoga and other sports in parks. So almost every second to third person in germany is going to the gym from time to time(or regularly) or is doing some Kind of other sports :)
You obviously missed the last four world championships where Adidas introduced a new ball with new fancy seams and prints each time. 😉 And if you want to see how people can make what’s seem impossible come true, I recommend two movies: Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle.
You'll be able to take your son to the football World Cup in 2026 ⚽️... the tournament is being hosted by Canada, Mexico and the USA .. Final in Dallas, I think.. My German 🇩🇪 sporting favourites ..Steffi Graf 🎾 and Sebastian Vettel 🏎 amongst others...
I think the ping pong table was a public one in a park, and they often have rounded corner so you minimize the danger of serious injuries if you hit the corner. Normal ping pong tables in Germany also have pointy corners :D
Known sports clubs from the region I come from are (known because they play in big stadiums and there is a lot of noise around them): Soccer: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or Karlsruher SC (KSC). Handball: Rhein-Neckar Löwen Ice hockey: Adler Mannheim However, I have to expose myself. I am not a big sports fan. I've been to a game at all the clubs I mentioned at most once. Otherwise I have hardly any contact points. For a couple of years now, I even actively don't do sports anymore, which also shows in my figure. However, before that I had chronologically practiced the following sports: track and field, soccer, competitive swimming, standard dancing, Viet-Vo-Dao martial arts, circuit training and flag soccer.
The rounded corners at the table tennis plate are not common, in this case it is a fixed installed concrete table at a kids playground...just for small kids safety
Oh, you mentioned discgolf - nice 🙂. I'm playing discgolf with my son (he's nearly 16) on a regular basis. And of cf course we know Simon Lizotte. A fantastic player from Germany. My son's favorite is Paige Pierce... just for your information: discgolf is quite a new sport in Germany, but slowly it gets more popular. We currently have roundabout 200 courses for discgolf here... 😉
In my experience, a lot of people in Germany also do various kinds of combat sports. I live practically in the middle of nowhere, so here we only have the "classics" like judo, karate, boxing, kickboxing and an inofficial private medieval sword fighting club in my area. Once you come to a biggest city, you get flooded with combat sports that you probably never even heard of.
I'm thinking of practicing Aikido, the Martial Arts of dodging. If I accidentally kill an attacker while having the black belt in Karate or Taek Won Do, I will be fucked juristically because a person actually died. But if I am doing a martial arts of dodging, I can hardly accidentally kill someone. Also, I'm a runner when something's dangerous anyway, but it'd be nice to know how to defend myself, because I'm a woman, and scared of going to work during winter because it's still dark outsidd.
@@gwendolynsnyder463 I'm familiar with Aikido. It's a pretty cool sport but I'm not quite sure about its effectiveness in a street fight (unless you trained it like forever). No offence, it's pretty similar with Judo. Also I think it doesn't matter which combat sport you do, by German law it is classified as attack with a weapon when you ever attack anyone. However if you act in self defense it doesn't matter as long as you stay within the range of "reasonable force". I guess it's pretty hard to actually kill someone anyway. Btw I'm a woman too, and a pretty awful runner. I totally get it. But I count on defense spray and the fact that most people tend to run when they realize that you will put up a fight.
Hello, unfortunately it is sometimes very exhausting and a bit annoying when you stop a video, say something about it, start it again a few seconds earlier and then stop again at the same point and say something again and then start back at the same point a little earlier, so that you have to look the same part of the Video 3-4 times. Unfortunately, this happens again and again in each of your videos. At all i like your reactions and comments.
The Germans were unprepared for the 1972 Olympic Games attack. We had no police special forces and no anti-terror units. In response to these terrible events, GSG 9 was founded. Other special units were added later.
Simon Lizotte Fan here as well :) I am german and love watching discgolf....sadly there isnt really any interest near my home for discgolf. Organizing courses to play, etc. for fun sports is something that we in Germany are super bad, I guess. We have so many woodland everywhere and yet noone picked up discgolf as a fun activity here. Kinda sad and I sometimes wish that germany would take on such sports in parks and woods far more quickly to encourage such stuff. It is something you dont need a club and people simply could go for it. Such sports never take off here.
Funny thing is: almost no one here knows who Simon Lizotte is, because Disc-Golf is not a thing in germany. I had to look him up (or the sport). I thought it was a fictional creationfor wii sports (or was is the sony variant)
Not only do we play ice hockey. The Dutch seem to kind of have invented having metal bars below the shoes to go quickly and safe on ice. Frozen oven waterways are abundant in the Netherlands in Winter...or used to be, now it's Global Warming aera and we have no real winters anymore in vast regions of Europe. The Mediterrenean is starting to turn from sub tropical to tropical...and so on.
The FC Bayern München is just a team, that won the championship (I think) twelve times in a row now and is one of the few teams, that advanced to the erste Bundesliga / first league and did not relegated since then. In Germany you have a football club in nealry every village and several in any city. And you have different teams in sports, from kids to teens, adults and even seniors. So germans do a lot of amateur sports, when the are adult up to retirement.
The rounded corners on a outside tabletennis are for safty reasons that children dont run against the corners if they playing games where u have to run around the plate.
public ping pong tables often have rounded corners, because they usually are near play grounds and therefore on the same height of the head from small children. So if they run into a table they don't get hurt. Also children who run a round the table. A very common game in Germany is called "Umlauf" (lit. run around"), where round corners are also preventing injuries while running around the table. For Umlauf you need 3+ player and use a small ball (usually the size of an adult palm, but could be any ball). One half of the group is on one side, the other is on the other side of the table in a line. You hit the ball and then have to get to the other side of the table (usually clockwise, so noone pumps into each other) at the end of the line, before you hit again. If you miss (same rules like getting/missing a point in ping pong) you're out, until just two are standing (and don't have to run around anymore). These two are than usually playing up to three or five points. whoever wins gets an extra life, so if you miss once during the run around phase you'll can continue. We played it all the time during elementary school. And sometimes you'll see young drunk adults playing it at night at the playground. Also Germans are less obsessed, because you don't get obsessed from a lack of sport, but from eating more calories than you need. So the reason for the obesity crisis in the USA is you're (lack of) food quality, rather than you're physical activity level.
Public table tennis plates are mostly round at the corners as (yes we germans are crazy about public security stuff sometimes) they could hurt someone running/falling in them... yeah... thats how we are...
Discgolf isn't a big thing in german, but it's growing. Simon Lizotte isn't a celebrity in germany. Only people with discgolf background may know him. I saw in one of your other videos your RU-vid suggestions with Jomezpro etc.. So i had a clue, you are a discgolf guy :-)
American sees a gun -> instant "what was that" "I want to play this!". Shooting seems to really be engrained in the US culture. But in all honesty, Biathlon is a very interesting shooting sport, that combines cross country skiing and shooting. It's basically the granddaddy of practical shooting and has its roots in military use of skis and guns for engagements in snowy theatres. Edit: And the main reason why the US is so obese, is the prevalent unhealthy and extremely high caloric diet there. There is tons of sugar and fat in everything. And the portion sizes are huge. White bread from the US would be classified as cake in some parts of Europe for instance.
In Belgium football is by far the ballsport which is most on tv, say like 99%. I once asked a tv producer why they didn't report on other ballsports, like handball, or korffball. Answer: because football is the most popular. Meaning: football is most on tv, because it is the most popular, because it is most on tv.
In Germany, you can try bobsledding as a tourist. Typically, at the end of the season, you can pay for a ride as a passenger in a bobsled. I did it once. Don't do it if your back is damaged! They easily pick up speeds beyond 100 kph - inside turns.
Germans don't generally care if you call it football or soccer. When speaking English, i've heard a lot of Germans refer to it both ways. We just call it Fußball in German, so that's a gripe Americans have with the British, not with us.
What a coincidence. Today, the day this video is uploaded, is exactly 50 years from the terrorist attack on the Olympics in Munich. They held a memorial ceremony today.
I guess that Germans just get more exercise regularly, by walking, cycling, doing something with friends. Instead of having that hard split of people who do absolutely nothing about health and weight, and those who are extremely into fitness, I feel that in Germany there's more a middle. Most people do a little bit here and there all the time. Based on the individual physiology, we still get normal people and a bit overweight people, but that's most of them. Because of the regular walking, cycling and an activity here and there, most people don't get to completely omit exercise. And if you become mindful of your nutrition at one point, that's all you need. Well, actively doing sports is still more healthy, prolonging the expected lifespan. But the other level that most people are, they will be fine until a senior age. And then, it's that. We have many seniors that have difficulties moving and a lot of health effects etc. If you only do a bit, you're mostly fine until you hit 60+, 65 or so. That's then where it differs if you have kept at it, actively doing sports regularly, or not. Your senior quality of life depends on it to some degree.
If you like to play Disc Golf yourself and visit northern Germany, check out the Disc Golf parcours in Hamburg - City Nord. They are right in the city, spread around multiple small parks and small meadows and free for public, you just have to bring your discs, get out of subway and start ...
