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.
I moved to San Diego 15 years ago. One of the many things I wanted to do when I got here was to learn how to surf. A friend and I eventually took our first surfing lessons for her 30th birthday. I was terrible at it, but instantly hooked.
Several years went by and I surfed when I had the opportunity. However, I couldn’t afford to buy a board. I was strapped for cash, paying for my mortgage, college tuition, and supporting my partner while she got her business off the ground. I also had precious little free time because of school. I lived 3 miles from the beach, but literally didn’t have time to go there and enjoy it.
On May 23, 2009, I finally graduated from college, 23 years after I began. Now that I have all this free time, what a wonderful way this surfboard would be to celebrate my accomplishments and perseverance. I could finally fulfill my dream of learning to surf.
Not only do I look at the clothes in your magazines, but I read the captions under almost every picture of the women modeling Title Nine’s clothes. Reading your magazine reminds me that I can still have a job and also have time to do my hobbies. I love water sports. I swim on a swim team for 20 hours a week, I sail on the weekend and I go to the beach. At the beach we have a certain schedule, we leave the house around 11am, drive 45mins to the beach, grab sandwiches at the local deli, drive to the beach, boogie board and relax for 3-4 hours then head back downtown for ice cream, then finally head home. For the last year or so, I have wanted to take surfing lessons and I did last week! It was so fun and I will continue and hopefully enter some surfing competitions. My dream is to have a house on the beach and to be a marine biologist. I deserve this surfboard because after a long week at school and then hard swim practices, the weekend is a perfect time to head to the beach and surf.
skim
free across
foaming curls
merging
into
sustenance of
All Life
follow
flow of currents
sea mist – salt air
swirl, drift, float
watch the cycles of life
know sunrise
a warm glow shimmering upon
glue green water
feel one with nature
understand
this is what life is
I am an elementary librarian. I am a triathlete, ocean lover, yogi, and gardener. Youth now are so lost – isolated – disconnected from nature. I want every child I teach each to experience just one day on a surf board and know intrinsically what it is to be one with nature.
There are so many good reasons why all these ladies should have this board. I just want to dream of all the things my family and I might get to do with a surf board. My five children all swim amazingly, but have never surfed. We try to visit the beach when we can. It would be so awesome to see them try to learn how to surf, to explore and have fun together and just be happy. That is my life long dream a family that plays together stays together! Hopefully, it will come true with or without the board, but how awesome it would be to add a surfboard to the fun. Get out there and Surf!
Skim
When April 1st rolls around- no matter how cold the New England weather is- I slip into the lake water for a swim. Seconds later I am out and into a warm towel. Days later I try it again. Why would I love to lay on my belly and paddle quietly in the morning mist along the edge of the lake on the Carve board? You can’t be closer to the water unless you are in it. Staring down into the depths looking at the long weeds growing around the rocks at the bottom and the fish swimming among them. I can glide quietly without disturbing this peaceful world but still be part of it.
Can you imagine living on Cape Cod, loving the ocean, teaching my two grown children to love the water and not being able to swim!!!! Somehow, I’ve always been afraid of the sea, yet could not imagine ever living anywhere else. As I approach retirement,I feel suddenly free and BRAVE and ready to face my fear of the water! I want to swim!!!! My 25 year old son loves surfing and wants to take me someday. How fantastic would it be to have this surfboard to help me complete a dream…..what a gift!
great swim suits
Things I Don’t Deserve (Inspiration from poet Dan Albergotti)
This surfboard.
I live amid 400 acres of corn and beans. In July, the wind gusts like tides across the corn, creating a green ocean. There’s no water in sight.
But my friend has a sailboat on Lake Superior. I can picture her young wet-suited sons clamoring atop this board, riding cool waters on this most beautiful lake.
Also among the things I don’t deserve is this friend; I am often unkind. The best gift I can give her for her tolerance is this thing I don’t deserve:
This surfboard.
Dear Title Nine,
Two and a half years ago, my beach and surf loving husband was offered his dream job working for an outfitter on Kauai. Shortly after we arrived, I had my first surf lesson. I thought a shared passion for surfing would help further bond me with my husband and with the islands. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before this big family, city girl got sooooooo homesick that I couldn’t handle life by the sea. Now we live in North Carolina and I would love to reconnect with my spouse and the ocean with this beautiful surf board.
Mahalo