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 Name is Gabriella. I work together with my husband in architectural and real estate photography. It is my 2nd time being married. I have no children. It did not happen naturally, and we could not afford the fertility treatments and procedures that are available nowadays, nor could we afford to adopt. It is a slow process, always thinking you will have a family, and then slowly, as the years go by, realizing you will not. I am happy, though. I have family, friends, clients, business associates, so many people in my life, and even strangers that are needful of love and care. I look at children as little people that are helpless and need much guidance, but adults are grown up children that still need help and love in many ways. Whether it be advice, encouragement, or just someone to talk to – I never feel alone, a void, or sad being without children.
I used to surf and boogie board with my 1st husband. Him and I are still friends, and he introduced me to my current husband. They are both from the country of Croatia. When I think back on the years I was surfing, those were the happiest times of my life. I love the water and miss it.
For a long time lately, I have spent my time working in the photo business, and helping others as much as possible. I hardly had time for myself. As deep as my well of energy and love is, (I have not hit the bottom), I could use some self renewal. I used to paint, and went to school for art and design. That is another thing I stopped doing for many years. I would like to go back to the water, and to painting and design, and to taking better care of my self like I used to do years ago. That is what the surfboard means to me. Going back to happiness, renewal, nature, and replenishment of my energy so I can continue to help and inspire others with health and happiness in their lives.
One of the lessons I learned during this economic slow down, when I finally started to have a little more time to myself, is that it is great to dedicate yourself to your work, that is it wonderful to love and help others, but we have to always make time in our busy, giving lives to take care of ourselves, physically and other wise – by remembering to do the things we love.
The Carve surf board would be a key element in my recent endeavor at trying to relax and enjoy my life a bit more. I have always been an over achiever in my schooling and work. Though this has been satisfying personally and professionally, my friends have finally convinced me that “you will not die wishing you took LESS vacation”. In May I took my first week long vacation to a surf camp in Costa Rica. I loved it. My new challenge is to move down from an 8′ 6″ board to this 7 footer. Pura Vita all.
Dear Title Nine,
I’ve been wishing for my own surfboard for years! I’m ten years old, and school is almost over so when it’s summer, I can catch perfect waves! My dad surfs, and takes his board on business trips – I am jealous that he gets to surf. He let’s me practice on his old board in the pool, but my brother and i have to share it. That’s no fun at all, but if I had my own surfboard, I wouldn’t have to share!
Sincerely,
Natalie Aragon
P.S. My mom says it’s too pretty to surf on, but I say, “No way! Surfs up!”
P.P.S. I will have to share it with my mom since she typed this for me!
The thirty-seventh anniversary year approaches for the passing of Title IX, a law that gives women the hope to fulfill their dreams as athletes. I hope to continue sharing my love of surfing with those who are less fortunate to surf on their own because of a mental and/or physical challenge. As a volunteer for AccesSurf, we see that children and adults experience the same exhilaration on that perfect wave! To see their brilliant smile, to hear their squeal of pure delight, or even see the look of fear-turned-elation, is enough to believe in magic; moments of passion shared!
To see one wide-eyed, young-at-heart, brilliant smile on a beautiful soul as she catches her epic wave; to see proud parents standing anxiously on the hot sandy beach as their challenged, perhaps autistic or paraplegic child stands up or lays prone (by assistance), on a breathtaking board and feels the energy as the wave rushes under, through, and over their broken body or mind, healing them with a greater magic than we could ever wildly imagine; to feel deep within your heart that this single larger-than-life ride is everything magical to her. Give her the promise that she CAN!
Ann –
Occupation: full-time Engineer/Consultant, part-time Photographer, and aspiring Yogini
Food: Pescatarian
Fun Fact: She has been the maid/matron of honor in 3 friend’s weddings
Anatomy lesson: Can touch her nose with her tongue
Secretly Loves: Designer shoes
Wishes: To win the Carve Designs Surfboard and finally ride the wild surf with her husband!!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I enter the water in the manner I wish I could meet the world with every day. Head up, chest out. Back muscles engaged, toes curled under in predatorial awareness in case I must pounce or flee reacting with lightining reflexes. I’m ready to roll with the ups and downs. I’m anchored solidly in the water but I’m tensed and light enough to ride high and not get bogged down.
Balance reigns or you get nowhere. No matter how many times I could ever get out on the ocean, I’m still in awe at the vastness, not only around me, but beneath me. I feel so small yet so important, like a bloodcell pulsing through the veins of the earth. The salty mist purifies my very spaces in my head, by body is permeated with infused oxygen. For awhile I chase the big one I play the easy ones out in between. Lifted to the highest moments of pure joy again and again. Going with the flow whenever I can and ducking when I can’t only to turn my eyes up over and over lifting my head and spirit, repeated smiles.
I’m a single mom of two so when I get a chance to surf, it would be great to not have to rent or borrow a board anymore. It would sure help my flow to be able to just jump right in!
Late again. I sprint forward, and the jogging stroller wobbles predictably as my 3 year-old daughter settles in. “Come on, you can do it — you can do it!” I turn my head and shout to my two smiling 5 year old girls running with me towards the elementary school.
“Mama, I’m doin’ this real good!” My 3 year-old, Soquel, has unbuckled and is standing on the front of the stroller with knees bent and her arms out – perfectly balanced and grinning.
Plenty crazy, happy energy around here just waiting for the water and a T9 board.
A surfboard represents a sleek length of confidence. I’d put this surfboard in the hands of my fourteen year-old niece. Most fourteen year-old girls could use a healthy shot of confidence. Which of us doesn’t remember teetering on the fence of puberty, wanting to burst forward into womanhood but terrified that everyone was watching us. I would present this surfboard to her as an extension of her inner strength. She only has to climb on and stand up. What about the balance, you might ask? Well, after all she is a woman. She was born with balance.
I was born under the water sign pieces and grew up surfing the waves. Through life guarding, I was able to help others love the water. My husband and I honeymooned in Hawaii to surf. Today,our water front cottage is where all our friends and family come with their children to camp, bike, hike. boat and enjoy the water. It is a gift to see all the children together. If I had one wish come true, It would be to win this HOT surfboard to encourage tomorrows surfers…