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Can you go through TSA with a HAngboard ??

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Ben ZH · · Flagstaff AZ · Joined Sep 2011 · Points: 383

I fly around a lot for work and try to never check a bag. Question: Does anyone know if TSA would confiscate a hangboard?

Also looking for recommendations for the ones that fit easy in a medium backpack and are simple to set up in an apartment.

Thanks.

Deven Lewis · · Idaho falls · Joined Oct 2016 · Points: 275

I went through with mine on a trip to Virginia they don't care. And my bag of coca... I mean chalk.
I have the flash board it just slides into any back pack if you have 2 rachet straps you can go anywhere

Brandon Fields · · Boulder, CO · Joined Apr 2016 · Points: 5

TSA called their supervisor to look at my Flashboard in Santa Barbara. He was swinging it around like a bat to see how efficient of a weapon it might be. They ultimately let me take it on, but seemed pretty worried about it. I’d probably get a smaller hangboard that doesn’t look like a bat for traveling.

Ned Plimpton · · Salt Lake City · Joined Jul 2008 · Points: 116

I’ve carried on full sized hangboards between SLC and LAX.  Never questioned though I had the manufacturer’s website up on my phone just in case it needed explanation.  

I find it strange that folks get grief from TSA when traveling with flashboards (the ”club” issue) when I see people carry on skateboards all the time.  

Ben ZH · · Flagstaff AZ · Joined Sep 2011 · Points: 383

Thanks for the responses 

Will Eginton · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2019 · Points: 0

I run the tensionboard "block" in my backpack wherever I go -- even international. Just keep in mind certain places internationally are weird about untreated wood, so I always make up some stuff about it being coated with a porous/thin treatment. That seems to do the trick.

Haven't had any issues. I used to travel about two weeks out of the month all over

The whole chalk in a carry-on thing still baffles me. Never been questioned, and no-one even thinks twice about it.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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