Listen, when entering a sento, one must forcefully knock back

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Listen, when entering a sento, one must forcefully knock back the curtains with the back of one's hands, and then, before they fall back and bar your path, you must boldly and willingly stride in, not allowing them to touch any of your body! After entering, you must remove your geta, but must never put them in a cubbyhole. Rather, without losing forward momentum, you must forcefully kick them off and proceed! It goes without saying that you must choose an old and worn pair of geta that nobody would consider stealing. Open the inner door like a man! Those modern automatic doors are anathema to the true sentoist! Once inside, while holding an exact 40° angle to the counter, you produce a ¥1000 bill. While getting change, you must banter with the cashier, such as: "Oba-san, nice day today." If done correctly, this will allow you to peek into the women's locker room. Such skills are just a small part of sento lore, rituals handed down since the Edo period. It's our duty to fully master the art of sentology, to reaffirm the proletarian nature of the sento, and thereby trumpet our tireless clash to the pervasive middle-class decay of old virtues!