{"id":1606,"date":"2009-04-15T06:39:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/04\/15\/jal-surfboard-check\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T06:39:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:39:37","slug":"jal-surfboard-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"JAL Surfboard Check&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"files\/20090406180042.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090406180042.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nok, i knew that the new surfboard charges went into effect but i wanted to investigate.  not only for me, but for all us surfers that travel on japan airlines.  so i pack 1 board in my board bag along with my dive guns and fins so my bag is kind of heavy.  i pull up to honolulu airport and check in.  the girl at the counter asked me how many boards i have in my bag.  i say 1.  she asks me again.  i say 1.  she told me to open my bag.  i said no.  she asked me again to open my bag, i said no.  i was smart and put a lock on my bag so they couldn&#8217;t open it.  she asked me again to open it.  i said &#8220;why do i have to open it?  i told you that there is only 1 board in there.&#8221;  but she insisted and even called the security guard to open it.  i didn&#8217;t want the guy to break my new lock so i opened my bag.  she felt around and made sure that there was only 1 board in there.  then she told the other girl &#8220;yeah, there is only 1 board&#8221;.  i just stood there and shook my head&#8230;<br \/>\n*then my JAL friend met me near the gate and i told her to tell the girl sorry.  i didn&#8217;t want to be mean or anything, i just wanted to know how far us surfers can go without being drastically over charged.  times have changed.  airlines hate surfers.  why can golfers take a heavier golf bag for free?  why can you take a bicycle on for free?  why can seth moniz tell the agent that there is a guitar in his surfboard box and get it on for free?  i don&#8217;t get it.  i&#8217;m kind of bummed at the new charges but i guess we have to live with it.  what can we do?  either travel with only 1 board and hope you don&#8217;t break it and ruin the rest of your trip.  or marry a millionaire and take as many boards you want.  but just remember this, the JAL staff WILL open your board bag and count your boards so don&#8217;t bother trying to be sneaky.  it won&#8217;t work&#8230;.  good luck surfers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, i knew that the new surfboard charges went into effect but i wanted to investigate. not only for me, but for all us surfers that travel on japan airlines. so i pack 1 board in my board bag along with my dive guns and fins so my bag is kind of heavy. i pull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}