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.
Our house burned down in the 2007 Wildfires in Southern CA. We have been struggling with our insurance company for 18 months before getting funds to rebuild . . . but during that time discovered the JOY of heading out of the trailer we’ve been living in and going to the beach to escape. The 3 boys and I love to boogie board, and I think now I’m ready for a real surfboard!
As a physical therapist in San Diego, many of my patients are looking to return to–surfing of course! For surfers, any injury can hinder a successful return to the water. Given that surfing involves a harmonious use of all your parts, a surfboard in the clinic would be perfect for everything from popping up to functional balance, stability, and strengthening. This would solve a two-fold dilemma–one, to stop nagging my husband for his 9’6″ longboard; and two, to be able to rid myself of the repeated rejection by my boss for my request for a clinic surfboard!
Being out in the ocean is the only spot where I can carve my own space without being bombarded by the wild, wrestling boys/men in my life (husband and two sons)! When it is hard to think of myself as an athlete and fit adult, I dream of catching a few waves and feeling my strong body in tune with the ocean. This is what motivates me to be a healthy person, instead of just a Mom who takes care of her kids and the house. It is easier to be lazy but the stronger I am, the stronger my family is, and the stronger my boys are……
Alas, finances don’t allow for extras right now like a new surfboard! I would relish the opportunity to make my surfing dreams come true…to be a fit Mom who also surfs might just make me dance on water!!
I am a high school teacher. Any teacher will tell you how hard we work. And I love my kids…even the righteous, typical teenager ones. But between texting in class and I-turned-it-in-you-must-have-lost-it, I need a break. A place where there is more than the artificial world people create for themselves. Where sea otters play in the kelp. Where the cool upwelling brings life. And where real power comes from the waves. But here, instead of depleting you, the energy carries you, strengthening your soul in the process. This is replenishment.
Dear Title Nine,
I think I would be a great candidate for your cool surf board because I don’t have a board. I have been surfing for almost a year in Massachusetts. I have to borrow a friend’s board when I head out into the waves. Consequently, I miss a lot of waves because of this. I would love this fabulous surf board because I could catch waves whenever I want and it matches my bathing suit that I bought from Title Nine to boot. How awesome will that be me with my matching bathing suit and board.
I’m the oldest of nine children, helped raise most of them. I have 2 grown children and 5 grandchildren. I’ve been a nurse for years. I’m tired out and need a break. I am making some great changes in my life. I’m currently unemployed for health reasons. My belongings have been sold or are in storage. My USMC brother is stationed at a sea-side Marine base, and will depoy overseas in the fall. I’m currently traveling across country tolive with him and his family and will be staying with my sister in law while he’s away. This is a time for adventure, healing, and rejuvenation for me. My S-I-L and I have set a goal of working of working together to drop lots of weight and to get back in shape. We’ve both gained quite a few pounds due to adverse health and prescribed medications which tend to cause weight gain.We’ve been very inspired by the strong, healthy, successful women in your catalog. Next year at this time we plan to be checking out waves from the view of that awesome surfboard. By then we should be looking good in some of your awesome duds!
Aloha, Title9-ers and Carve Designers ! I am so excited. You see, I have the most incredible and dear daughter and it would be such a tremendous delight to me if I could present this awesome board to her ! I deserve that kind of deep pleasure in my life, I really do.
My daughter learned to surf during a wonderful Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound School trip experience at the age of 17. She was a participent of that CRROB-trip due to it’s inclusion in the prestigious merit leadership scholarship awarded her.
That board is very beautiful ! How it will enhance my daughter and my daughter will enhance it !
And the pleasure will be mine !
Surfing has been a part of my life since the day on the beach, wearing a red polka dot bikini….I met my husband, Miles. Two sons and many surfing adventures later, I am blessed with 4 granddaughters. All love the beach!! The oldest started surfing at 8. She has everything she needs, except a board. This board could be the beginning of all new adventures for 4 young women. Please consider we live in the Pacific Northwest and the cold water doesn’t stop my precious family from searching for the perfect wave.
A coffee table, you must be kidding!!!
Ocean is in my blood. At 10 I longed to be a mermaid. My idol sat demurely on the Chicken of the Sea tuna fish cans. I peeled labels off to save her image. At 28 I timed for the elite swim group in my first triathlon, the sole woman flailing in a churnfest of male energy. At 37 I taught myself to surf, humbling my way to a decent pop-up. At 50, I iced double overhead waves in Costa Rica.
I’ll ride the hell out of your beauty board.
A trailblazing woman like me deserves it, dontcha think?
At the end of a course I took because it looked interesting, the teacher called me a dilettante. I liked the compliment. In the decades since, I often thought of him as I tried new things. Among my interests are running, swimming, basketry, gardening, writing, pottery, biking, traveling, and surfing. Why would anybody want to become an expert at only one thing when there’s so much to do and see? That sweet surfboard will fit comfortably next to my bike as I visit family and friends along the east coast this summer, and explore both turf and surf.