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.
If waves could sustain me
Then life would be sweet,
Carried by currents
Under my feet.
When the walls that surround me
Are liquid and blue
There is no confusion-
I know what to do.
I’ll ride out the waves
As I ride out the years
Trusting my board
Until the shore nears.
Lands far and near
East coasts and West
Searching for breaks
That put me to the test.
As the blazing sun sets
The first star winks above
I’ll wish for surf,
My worthy true love.
I would surf my heart out with this amazing board!
I was always told there are three parts to fulfilling your dreams there is thinking about it, getting your supplies, and then getting out there and doing it. I have already finished step one because I have wanted to be a surfer since I was a little girl. But I haven’t finished step two because I can never save enough money. But if I win this board I will be set to surf. I am fifteen years old and I would love to win this awesome board and fulfill my life long dream of being a surfer.
One sustainable surfboard, plus endless waves, added to persistence, determination, and the thrill of realizing your dreams come true surely will grow into a love, a desire, a lifestyle of freedom to roam the beautiful beaches the planet has to offer, meeting people and spreading the ideas of how to make our planet a better place and bring us all together in one world surely is my idea of sustainable joy come true.
To quote Jimmy Buffet, ” mother, mother ocean I have heard your call, wanted to sail upon your water since I was three feet tall. You’ve seen it all,you’ve seen it all .” Winning this surfboard will allow me to achieve a lifelong dream of traveling, becoming a surf goddess, and seeing it all. The sound of the surf speaks to me that exotic places lie just beyond the tip of a surfboard, and with the push of a wave I can be there. Life is too short, dream big.
Could it be, a stick of beauty, size perfect for my dynamic body. Happy, refreshing color, with all swim pieces to adorn myself in? A wave of sweet salt and mist just put me in a trance of how my adventurous mom called me her precious swim pup, and brought back from Hawaii my first float. Forty years now, I have been scurrying after my unleashed magic, as I race the face of my I.B. break! A leashed beauty would be a comfort. Thanks ladies, for making me look and feel fabulous as I quietly warrior about ” living the wave”.
I really, honestly, truly and deeply believe that you should give me that absoluetly beatiful surfboard. I’m an East coast girl who has always dreamed of riding the waves. I’m also a public school pre-k teacher who goes on mock classroom trips to Hawaii every year. If I win that bodacious board, I will make 3 solmen promises – I will:
1. let generations of land lubbers try out my board in my classroom.
2. discuss famous female surfers and
3. one day realize my dream of surfing in Hawaii.
Please, oh please, pick me!
Sisters of the sea, so you ask, why me?
From head to toe I stand 5 foot 3
The sea has tossed and tattered me,
Yet my way remains to let it be
To my sisters of the sea –
Mystical, strong, and wise are the,
Give me this gift, this victory,
So that I may return to the sea
For it is she who sets me free
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New Mexico has its perks – otherworldly arroyo hiking and a ceiling of stars that leave a kink in your neck. I lived in Santa Fe for four years, but now I am moving to live by one thing I really missed in the desert: THE OCEAN. My new home is in Kirishima, Japan, where I will teach English. There I am a short ferry ride away from Okinawa. Okinawa is the Hawaii of Japan, where the temperatures are subtropical and the surfing is choice. And after four years in the desert, I am going to need a surfboard.
Like so many women, I have spent my life imprisoned in a body that I can’t see. All I see is an amorphous blob that bedevils my mind with tricks – in the mirror, in the perceived looks of others, everywhere. I have often made lists of things I would like to do, physical feats I would love to accomplish. That list includes surfing in my beloved Santa Cruz. As a former athlete, I can’t fathom losing the battle with my discomfort in my own skin. No more. I’m tackling the list, one item, one battle, at a time.
I grew up wanting to be fearless and conquer anything that came into my life. I wanted to learn how to do things to be self-sufficient, but once I had children that changed. It wasn’t about me, but being able to teach my children how to be fearless. They have been challenged by rock climbing, bmx, swimming, downhill skiing, mountain biking and hiking by the ages of 4 and 5. My daughter, Emma, made a comment about surfing “being a boy sport”. I want to learn how to surf, to teach Emma that there is no such thing as a “boy” sport and that her mom is capable of anything as she is too.