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 live in northwest Montana and the closest surf break is 700 miles away in Seaside, Oregon. The irony of this is that I am a surfing fanatic and love the ocean and it’s culture. Whenever possible, I travel to Maui, Mexico and California, but, consider my “home break” the 50 degree waters of the northern Oregon coast. Long boards are great for most places I surf, but the sectiony beach breaks of Oregon are better suited to a shorter board. I want to diversify and improve my surfing and think this board will help me accomplish that.
“Wanna win this sweet surfboard?” Darn toot’in I do! You know that old adage, “out of sight – out of mind”? Well I think that’s my problem…as long as I’ve existed, Over 50 years now, I’ve longed to be a surfer girl and ski girl, being born in Utah made the ski girl dream easy but the surfer girl, still longing. I think if I park that sweet surfboard right here on the living room floor and practice my pop-ups and visualize, I’ll do what it takes to move to the beach and be the surfer girl, too.
You still surf? I get that a lot. I am one of the original East Coast women surfers. I started surfing in 1966 in Normandy Beach, NJ on a 9 foot Dewey Weber from Simo’s shop in Lavallette. That first wave in May was the beginning of a lifelong love of surfing.
In September 2006, I suffered a heart attacked – on the beach! Paramedics acted quickly; I had minimal heart damage. I was back in the water the following spring!
I’m alive and still surfing. Winning a new board would be a real stoker!
Hello,
My name is Tanya Anderson-Sajovec. I am a 45 year old stay-at-home Mom with identical twin, 10 year old daughters and a 6 year old son. As a former athlete and active Mom, I am always striving to teach my children the importance of being active and eating healthy. We love to bike, hike, ski and swim. Now that my son is old enough, we are planning to take surfing lessons this summer. If I was to win this surfboard it would represent to me what I hope to pass on to my children, a healthy lifestyle filled with fun, strength and confidence! Now that would be “sweet”!
7 years ago, I took my first ‘Surf Diva’ class at the age of 42 at La Jolla Shores . I had gone to Medical School in San Diego 20 years previously and watched the guys surf while the girls body surfed or boogie boarded – surfing wasn’t a chick-thing in the early 1980’s. I absolutely LOVED it – and for a mom of 2 and a physician – there was something very zen about sitting out in the middle of the ocean hearing only waves – neither your beeper or your kids could disturb you! I bought a board, stopped to surf after work and all was good! Then, 3 years ago, we moved to southeastern Minnesota for my husband’s job – something they don’t warn you about in Medical School when you think you’ve broken all those barriers to ‘do it all’! My board is stored in a friend’s garage for when I visit – but I need that T9 board for the lake!!!
I have lived on the Atlantic Ocean for 6 years and recently started to surf. Now, I try and talk friends, family and neighbors into coming into the water with me to enjoy the serenity and physical activity of surfing. I would love the 7′ board so I have an extra board to share.
Laura from Long Beach, NY
I have a baby girl. She is awesome, independent already at 2 years old and strong. I am completely uncoordinated so I am hoping that she might have her daddy’s athletic ability. I never learned to surf but always dreamed that I would one day. I don’t want her to put off her dreams like I did and still do. She loves the ocean and I want her to enjoy every aspect of it. I want the board for her. And if that doesn’t happen to be a dream of hers, then we will give the board to someone who has the dream.
I did not enjoy the benefits of Title IX but was ecstatic when it passed.
I am an “older” model of your models and think I would be a wonderful recipient!
I turn 56 on June 22 and hike, ski, kayak, run (usually placing in my age group), play tennis, do yoga, and tried surfing. My petition for a high school track team was turned down as unnecessary. Girls didn’t need track.
Thankfully, my daughter and her friends have had all of those opportunities.
Though I wasn’t able to start the track team, I have never stopped running!
Sorry, I didn’t see the 99 word restriction. I will shorten up here.
My name’s Jill, I’m 48, mom of 4 and soon to be grandma of “Bella Gianna” in two weeks. I never learned to swim, and to this day swim like a very large ROCK. So you ask, why do I want a surfboard? Well, I moved to Kauai four months ago and decided now would be the time to learn. One of our Board members said he would teach me to surf if I learned. Can you think of a better incentive than this beautiful board?
I’m Jill and I just turned 48, mom of four and eagerly awaiting my new granddaughter “Bella Gianna” in just a couple of weeks. Neither of my parents swam or did anything fun in the water, therefore I never learned to swim. To this day I swim like a very large ROCK. So you ask, why do I want a surf board? Well, I moved to Kauai four months ago and I told myself If I wanted to learn how to swim, now would be the time. The first month I was here, while meeting with one of our Board members, he told me if I learned to swim he would teach me surf. So there you go.
In 1999 I lost both my breasts to cancer and was not given much of a chance of making it, but it’s been nine years now. If I can rock a bald head for two years (I actually kind of liked my head) and crawl back to a normal life after that experience, I think I can learn to swim. Can you think of a better incentive than this beautiful board! I think it would be awesome to show off to my kids what mom’s accomplished! Thanks for considering