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.
My Labor of Love
Wonderful women at Title Nine – Please help this ex-mountain mama adapt to her new coastal life! I spent most of my 20s and 30s living in Colorado, slowly collecting all the hobbies and mountain gear a girl could want. Although I deeply love the mountains, snow and the altitude, my love for a man – now my husband – spawned my recent move to Southern California. My small garage is cluttered with snowboards, skis, snowshoes, etc. and I’d trade them all for a surfboard so I can take full advantage of the gorgeous weather and beaconing waves.
I am a southern Cali transplant. Born in Ohio, and lived in Southern Illinois. A year after high school, I packed up the Prelude and headed west; to the Southern California coast. I tried surfing when I was 20, but had no girlie to guide me, only surfer boyfriends more interested in catching their own waves than teaching me. 18 years later, I took up the sport, fell in love with it, and now I’m hooked. I surf with other mamas most Sunday mornings, and before work in the summer time.
I live in Laguna Beach, Ca where a shorter board is key to getting a fun ride on our very tide sensitive and inconsistent break.
I also want to continue to be a role model for my kids, and keep them active, while continuing to teach them a love of mother earth and the ocean that surrounds us.
When they decide to take to the sea, I’ll be out there, riding the waves right along with them, and keeping them safe.
I’m surfin’ Title Nine in Internet Time, ridin’ the fiber waves, so i can catch the ultimate wave on this sweet Carvin’ Design in the Bonzai Pipeline. Soothe this Saggitarian soul, help me feed my fiery passion, use this Entropy to prevent my atrophy from Sea to Shining Sea; take the ultimate water trip; keep a waterlog of all the rips & curls, and post to Title Nine, h2o so sublime!
(after i take a surf lesson of course!)
This is a love story – two soulmates, really. My sister-in-laws’ parents met in Hawaii, he was stationed there and she lived there. They fell in love, got married, began a family and lived happily in Pennsylvania for over 60 years until a month ago when he passed away of cancer. Before he passed, they discussed their plans for the afterlife. They both wished to be cremated, have their ashes combined and sprinkled over Salt Pond in Kauai. She saved him from drowning there. I would donate this surfboard to the family to make their wish come true.
I am like an Indian without a bow, a burrito without salsa, and a bee without a bumble. I have a winter wetsuit, a spring suit, surf shorts, and wax, but no stick. Washington DC is not exactly a surf haven, so I find waves on vacations and travels. I have surfed in Hawaii, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Australia, Florida, and Mexico and I been relegated to surfing with waterlogged rentals. It is my aspiration to some day move back to California where I would be able to surf several times a week and eat as many fish tacos as I want. Winning this board would be a symbol of my intentions to follow through on that dream. Can you help? Oh yeah and I’ll gladly let every other hapless chick who comes to visit me sans a board borrow my ride, too.
At the age of 35 I had my first child, a daughter. As with most births it was a joyful experience. However, shortly after her arrival into our lives my health started to falter. After many specialist visits and multiple tests my diagnosis was an unexplained autoimmune disorder. Each day I awoke to pain in all of my joints and unremitting fatigue. I was young but felt 90 years old. I had to make a choice- how to cope with a chronic condition and still enjoy life. I chose surfing. It was a new challenge for me and the activity helped ease the pain. In this undertaking, I realized it helped teach my daughter how to face adversity and turn a chronic condition into a manageable one with joy and laughter.
I was born and raised in the desert, and I can count on one hand the number of times I went to the beach before the age of 30. I grew up water skiing, but it has been my lifelong dream to learn to surf. However, a recent diagnosis of the tall athlete’s dread, Marfan Syndrome, had me afraid that dream was dead. But, although I now have some athletic restrictions, the doctors have cleared me to surf. So let me be the middle-aged hodad on this stick for the best reason of all. Because I can.
I’ve always wanted to live in Hawaii (who wouldn’t) but I’m here in Michigan, almost an island, we’re 3/4 surrounded by water!! So I’m painting a side of our pole barn into a giant mural. Waikiki year round! I’ll incorporate the surfboard (3D) in the picture. Maybe have Elvis surfing. Then I can take it down and go to our beautiful Lake Michigan to surf or just sit and float on it with my granddaughter, enjoying life. No sharks to worry about !
Now why would an Alaskan elementary school principal want a surfboard? There are a 100 reasons that would certainly knock the tails off most inquirers and these are my students. I kid you not, yes, we do surf the stormy waves near our quaint little town, and the winter months produce the best carving waves. Our fashionable “wear” is not your typical bikinis, but full wetsuits, head gear, gloves and socks. Oh my gosh, can be bitter cold. It’s the walking up to our cars after a ride that produces the frozen wetsuit and ice on our eye lids that gets to you.
So send us the board and we’ll use it at least a 100 times.
hi, i’m katie, 27. i’ll live by the beach soon because i’ve long dreamed of it. currently living in wichita, ks, my outdoor activities are limited. soon i’ll be moving to CA to be with my love in the coast guard. i’m fond of surfers or anybody who gets out there and gets physical. by the way there is some great running and biking here. i want to take is board to the beach and learn to ride the waves, when i’m stuck by myself while my lover is away at sea, for 2-3 months at a time.