Wanna win this sweet surfboard?
The contest period has ended. Thank you for all the amazing entries. Stay tuned over the next few days for the announcement of our winners!
We worked with our friends over at Carve Designs to create a one-of-a-kind T9er surfboard (shaped by Entropy) for one of you lucky ladies to win. Here’s all we’re asking – dazzle us with your creativity by telling us why YOU deserve this sweet 7′ sustainably-made ride.
Would you like to fulfill a life-long dream to catch a wave? Use it as a surf deco coffee table, or save drowning children in faraway oceans? Whatever the cause, tell us in 99 words or less by posting a comment below.
Share your words by June 1st, 2009 for a chance to win the surfboard awesomeness. Fret not, ’cause we’ll be giving away 2 prizes to the runners-up ($100 gift card + Team T9 membership).
Heads Up: Our contests are only open to Title Nine eMail subscribers. They are our way of saying thanks to our loyal customers. So if you aren’t already a subscriber you will become one by submitting your entry. Click Here to read the official rules.
To be lucky in life, to share with others, to travel with, to take care of, to surf with, to give a happy home to and then to tell stories of all the interesting places and people we have met along the way. A wonderful life it would be for this beautiful surfboard.
A real girl on a real girl’s board — yes — that would be perfect – what a great concept! I am a 53 year old young woman who is surrounded by guys: husband, three sons ages 16, 20, 22, and a male dog Moby. All of us surf, some more than others. To them, I am merely “one of the guys” – in other words, no special treatment. We have a great time surfing, but the pride of “my mom surfs” is quite silent most of the time. I’ve been thinking how I could improve my status and surf ability in my pecking order at the same time. And then your contest was announced – ta da – nirvana! If I had a one-of-a-kind T9er surfboard (shaped by Entropy), things could change big time. I would finally have a board that fit – in size, shape, and girliness — nice! It would be awesome — I may still be “one of the guys” but I’d be on a fantastic “one of the girls” surfboard.
I am writing this more for me, than you. Yes, i want that surf board, but more than that I am dealing with the fact that it has been 7 years since I surfed. i am a stay at home Mom. yes, some Mom’s manage to surf and be a Mom. For me, i spent so much time surfing, windsurfing, skiing and a host of other wicked activities, I was ready to give it all up if I could conceive. I finally met the man of my dreams, he wanted a family and we got BUSY! we now have 2 healthy, happy children and I am feeling the need to taste that salt water again. i left all my baords back in Vermont, and we are now in Utah. prices are high to ship, so yep, here i am reflecting and yes, hoping I will paddle out somewhere soon. I am working on my “jelly belly” as my kids call my middle…I am ready to catch a wave again. i am a lover of the water and I think my little girl takes right after me. She can’t get enough of the water. I intend on passing the beauty of surfing onto her, if she is willing.
thanks for the time and the consideration.
Cheers,
Elizabeth Purcell
I’m a Carolina woman,
living and working inland,
but always with an eye on the weather.
Come June, this board should be
riding the fringes of a hurricane.
Curled in my sleeping bag,
nestled in the dunes of the Outer Banks –
the hurricane deep in the Atlantic, stalling,
her wind sending steady pulses over the ocean’s face –
I’ll rise at dawn, wake my friends,
put in, paddle hard, duck under, push through…
smile once I’m out past the breaks…
feel the rhythm, find the one,
time it, turn, paddle fast and charge…
until I feel that first lovely drop…
Once upon a time there was a girl living in a dark, cold country far north called Norway. One day she was tired of winter and wanted to find summer and bring it back home. She travelled worldwide across oceans and high mountains, and found summer everywhere – but not how to bring it back home. Sitting on the beach watching the surfers in the sunset she found the answer: the FEELING of summer is what she needed. With a unique surfboard from Title nine she went back home, feeling the summer year round surfing the freezing waves of Norway.
I turn 50 this July and like all other birthdays, I take my late mother’s humor-laden advice that this one, like all others, “beats the alternative.” Although I can say that I’ve been an athlete all my life, given the time I grew up, it still wasn’t all cake since women were just starting to demand things and get serious stuff like bills passed – with a whole bunch coming right back at them. But I was luckier than those who came before me with little or no opportunity, like my grandmother who was born in 1890. She chose to never learn to drive a car and considered me to be a hopeless tomboy 🙂 (Love your so-named dress.) One of the most wonderful people I ever met was the late Ernestine “Erinie” Bayer, who helped me learn how to row (scull). Ernie is the matriarch of women’s rowing and established the first women’s crew program in 1938. Consequently, she and her husband were shunned by everyone in Philadelphia, but they could have cared less. (Well, her more than him….) I picked up your first catalog and gave it a read simply and only because it said “Title Nine” on it. That Act had passed, not made it anywhere locally and I finished high school thinking it’s just a bunch of crap. But so what? Just keep true to yourself. I’ve always tried to take on something new each decade. Not to abandon those things that I already love, but to keep myself active, open and thinking…..challenged. Some things I’ve kept, others not. But the goal has always been accomplished. Now it’s 5-0 and time again. Surfing? Never been. Not a big sport in the Midwest. Thought of it? Yes, I’ve wanted to visit my sister in California and take part in a “surfing camp” and learn how. She takes care of herself, but isn’t very active, so I thought this would be such a wonderfully typically awful thing for the little sister to do the older one 🙂 Winning this board would be the perfect thing to usher in number 5-0. That kick in the rear to puts thought into action yet again and creates a whole new scenario for adventure trips. And then after years of that are said and done, I will have the most perfect gift for a coastal niece! 🙂
I have been in LOVE with water since the day I was born, I think it’s in my genes (father was a Navy man). I swim, jetski, float, kayak, wakeboard, teach aqua therapy, and snowboard (it is frozen water). I currently still reside in Chicago, IL, but roadtrip twice a year to the coast. I fell in LOVE with the ocean on family vacations to Florida at a young age and vowed to learn to surf before I turned 35. Here I am at 34 years old and I just booked my first trip ever for Surfcamp. One week later I received your catalog with the contest information, coincidence…I think not! This Midwest water lover is excited, yet apprehensive about what this soul searching trip has in store for her. I would love to make Titlenine part of that experience.
For my entry I wrote a lil diddy… I especially hope all you fellow NYers enjoy this one!
“Surf the Subway”
Crashing waves of super sonic sound
Take me to new heights, deep underground.
This speedy vehicle, its jagged motion
Is unpredictable much like the ocean.
It stops and starts, it sways and fros,
I balance myself as the tension grows.
And at the high point my mind is wide,
Tense every muscle ’til I reach the tide.
I’m delivered to a new destination,
Hit the ground strong with a sense of elation.
I surf the subway…it’s strange but true.
That’s how I gear up for the ocean blue.
VISITING THE NORTH SHORE TO WATCH VANS PRO AM NOV. 2008 AND CAUGHT THE ITCH TO SURF. SAW TWO BOARDS IN A TRASH CAN BEYOND REPAIR BUT GOOD ENOUGH TO LEARN ON. CALLED UPS, WOULD COST OVER 200.00 TO SHIP HOME. WENT TO HAILEWA SURF SHOP, BOUGHT A BAG FOR THE BOARD, SHIPPED IT HOME FOR 100.00 IN BELLY OF PLANE. WHEN I ARRIVED HOME NOTICED A FIN WAS MISSING AND THE TIP OF THE BOARD HELD TOGETHER WITH DUCT TAPE. THE BOARD NOW RESIDES ON MY BRICK WALL. LOOKS GREAT BUT NOT SEA WORTHY. I’M 50 YEARS OLD AND HAVE THE URGE TO SIT ON TOP OF THE WORLD. WHAT A GREAT LOOKING BOARD TO LEARN ON.
My name is Trista Karlskin, i am 16 years old and a sophomore at east jordan high. Throughout my life i have had some hard points. When i was around 6 i lost my father to suicide and just recently i have lost two close friends in snowmobile accidents. If i could just win something for once it would be the most amazing thing in the world. It would truly change the way i live my life. All of my life i have been wanting to actually fly in a plane and travel the world. Surfing has been something i have loved to watch but never had the chance to actually do. This would give me the chance and opportunity to get out there and do something that i love for once. I would greatly appreciate this opportunity and cherish for the rest of my life!