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).
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What a beautiful surfboard!- As a PE teacher and leader of a mentor group for teenager girls in Japan called “learn and serve through sports” the board would find a visible sport in the school as a reminder to all of us that life and learning is not confined to the wall of a school in a busy city like Tokyo. – and of course we would make sure it is used often, any parent who wanted to borrow the board to take their children surfing for the weekend would be welcome to check it out and our mentoring group would take up surfing, to refresh and feel the waves and rythmn of life on a island. The board would also be broken in this summer as my family is making plans to visit Hawaii to celebrate 25 years of marriage and the joy of having 3 blossoming teenagers finding their way in the world. I would love to teach my daughter how to surf on the same beach in Hawaii where I first picked up a board while on a college tennis team road trip!
I am a watergirl. I have raised my 2 glorious children by myself. I am a Mom. I give full attention to best serve my clients. I am a business owner. I have re-engaged my brain. I am back in college, changing my career at 37. I am a nursing student. I have survived the darkest night of the soul having recently lost my mother. I am and always will be a daughter. Through all of this I have realized that I have lost touch with my soul. It is time to reconnect- I AM a WATERGIRL.
I think we all have to ride the wave today! Life is too short. Everyday I treat it like it could be my last. It’s time to enjoy the moement, run in the rain, teach your kids how to surf and be greatful that you’re alive! With this board I hope to encourage my children to live their lives to the fullest.
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Withstanding such indecencies as such is such so it is; yet, all being collected compactly, embracing ephemeral etheral self – coldness amazingly may dissolve as outer space effervescently shines, dissolution of lightly far off galaxies and salty fresh air sweetly osmosisize.
To leg go of this nonsensical civilizational insanity, feeling real and healing, while meeting Moon’s reflection from ethereal to ephemeral.
Surf: to ride a surfboard. That is what the internet would tell you, but really it is so much more. When I go surfing I feel like I am at home, happy, calm, and part of the ocean (my favorite place on earth). Actually owning my own surfboard would make that feeling even better and I could bring a part of that comfort and passion back home with me to my blue beach room, where it would fit in perfectly. This surfboard would complete me, my room, and my dreams!
Off the coast of Kodiak, Alaska, there are many waves that are left untouched. If I had a surfboard, I would be able to get out into the cold, salty Pacific and enjoy the WAVES. My kids could tell all of there friends that their mom, is also an awesome surfer chick who loves to hit the waves. It is also an excuse to hit the beach on a rare sunny day or even on a not so sunny day, and spend some time with my family and nature.
I am a 35 year old mother of two young boys (19 months and 3 years). My husband is a huge surfer and we have been traveling the world since we met so he can surf. We even got married in Costa Rica on the beach! We both love the beach, but he is the only one who knows how to surf….so far. We live in Austin where we have been surfing behind a boat for 9 years. I have been fortunate to learn to surf on a wave behind a boat, but still do not know how to surf in the ocean.
We have recently made the decision to give up our careers and take a HUGE leap of faith and move with no jobs to Panama. We want to teach our kids to surf, learn spanish and hopefully be as adventurous as we are. I need this surf board because I have to learn to surf! This surf board looks perfect for me to learn and in in turn teach my wonderful boys how to have a wonderful life full of surfing.
For my love and fear of the ocean:
At 41 I can’t say I’ve ever lived far from the water. I grew up on Long Island, went to college in Boston and for the past 17 years chose SF as my home. As an athletic Californian living near the coast you can’t help but be attracted to the surfing lifestyle. Many years ago a friend took me boogie boarding down in Santa Cruz before considered trying to teach me to surf. Not understanding how to read the waves or much less how to “ride ” them, I found myself breathlessly rolling upsidedown in a wave and freaking out! When I surfaced I ran out as fast as I could and sat down on the beach to watch the crashing waves. I couldn’t believe how frightened I was but since then I have taken two surf lessons to help me overcome this fear…I’m only a little better now but maybe this surf board will help me become fearless and one with the ocean!
Sometimes I dream of surfing
paddling out
arm over arm
sun or clouds
leaving behind everything that gets in my way
part of the community
sharing the waves
but out there for myself
I face my fears
the raw feeling of the challenge in my gut
body to board
a simple, brilliant plane
moves me
on top
through
in harmony with
wave after wave after wave
a Waterbearer borne on water
salt, sand, sea, sun, surf
what I take away from a ride
I give back to those on shore waiting for me
balance…confidence…rhythm…purpose…life!
I’d like to say that the sand in my hour-glass figure has shifted but that would suggest I had a shape to begin with! After birthing my two children and enjoying all the goodies I could want, I am now post-menopausal and the goodies are settling in less than desirable places. I have, however, been trying in recent years to get into shape, as in fit. My focus this spring has been on pop-ups and balance. I figure when I win that sweet surfboard, I’ll be able to launch myself to my feet and glide neatly onto the sand.