{"id":3212,"date":"2010-05-06T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2010\/05\/06\/jal-black-list\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T01:06:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:06:16","slug":"jal-black-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"JAL:  Black List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  wow, looks like we have another south swell.  bowls is looking head high and really good.  i got up at 2 am, then 3 am, then now at 6 am.  i&#8217;m still tired but jumping in the water might fix me up.  see you out there&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2805.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ncheck out this cool photo that segawa-san sent me.  this is somewhere in izu.  hey, do you think i can go free dive there this summer?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100505121947.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nwanted to say hello to jon from seattle.  yeah, what a freakin small world.  you know uncle roy?  that&#8217;s cool.  maybe see you on a future red sea adventure tour.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100505123729.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nhey, why am i on the Japan Airlines black list?  i get hassled everywhere i go.  is it because i&#8217;m a surfer?  yes!<br \/>\n<font color=\"blue\">so there i was leaving Kuala Lumpur airport in malaysia a few days ago.  i go to the check in counter with my suitcase in one hand, and spearguns wrapped into my board bag in the other.  i go to the counter with a smile on my face because i know that 2 flights will take me home.  as i put my bags on the scale, they JAL staff starts to feel my bag.  he asks me if there is a surfboard in there.  i told him no because there really wasn&#8217;t one in there.  i told him that it&#8217;s just my fishing poles.  then another staff asks me again.  i told him no.  he looked at a paper that was printed out in his hand saying that MR. Kirby Fukunaga is traveling with his surfboard.  what????  he said that there was a note in the computer that i would be bringing a surfboard with me.  what????  i told him again that there was no surfboard in my bag and asked him if he ever seen a surfboard 8 inches thick before.  he looked at me as if he didn&#8217;t even see a surfboard in his life.  anyway, i had to explain to him that i had a surfboard when i came to malaysia, but broke it in indonesia so i wasn&#8217;t taking any home.  they felt the bag again and looked at me as if i were lying.  after the staff had a discussion in malay, they finally believed me.  was that discrimination?  are they targeting surfers?  why would they have a note that i will be traveling with a surfboard so make sure to charge me?  i was kind of bummed and would like an apology from JAL.  i&#8217;m really thinking twice of using them again.  i feel like i&#8217;m on the surfers blacklist and i don&#8217;t like it&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"blue\">if you ever travel to malaysia from japan, use malaysian airlines.  they don&#8217;t charge for surfboards.  it&#8217;s free!!  shame on you JAL&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">*last, wanted to thank Guid Brescian from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfculture.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> WWW.SURFCULTURE.IT<\/a> for the opportunity for the interview for your wonderful mediterranean digital magazine.  i just finished it.  sorry it&#8217;s late as you know i&#8217;ve been kind of busy.  let me know when it comes out and i&#8217;ll introduce everybody to your site.  mahalo again.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. wow, looks like we have another south swell. bowls is looking head high and really good. i got up at 2 am, then 3 am, then now at 6 am. i&#8217;m still tired but jumping in the water might fix me up. see you out there&#8230; check out this cool photo that segawa-san [&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-3212","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\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}