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 think the question is not so much as why I deserve this surfboard, but why this surfboard and I deserve each other. As a marine biologist, ocean conservation is my lifeblood. Yet despite all of the time I have spent in the sea, I’ve only ever borrowed other people’s boards…the right one just hasn’t found me yet. This board deserves to be someone’s first board…the one that will be prized forever even once time and use has had its way, if nothing more than for the sentimental value it holds. We are a perfect, ecologically-friendly pair!
I would freeze my tata’s off with it on Lake Superior!!!!!! Would I be the first woman to surf on Lake Superior? We could find out!!!!!!!!!
-K
With this tropic flowered girl-wave powered board of Zen, I will course through the blue, angling down the wave, across the page of summer . . . and fall and winter and spring. Flinging trepidation into the invisible and beyond, the world will be my pond and mentor: first the coast of best-kept northwest secrets, then to Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and the San Onofre of childhood. The singing surf is the part of me that late in life has suddenly arrived, crashing my shores in an ongoing incoming tide–one that will ebb no longer.
Not sure why you’d want to give a perfectly lovely surfboard to an only-body-surfed-before Wisconsinite! Especially since she’s a huge kayaking fan!
Oh wait, I just thought of it: she’s planning to move to LIBERIA in a few months to help renovate 100 schools… and in Liberia, they have beautiful surfing waves, and not much kayaking. The folks I would be hanging with all surf, so a sweet board like this would help me be “cool like the other kids” (till I actually got out in the waves, of course!).
Here’s what happened on my recent encounter with the Liberian version of the Atlantic: http://angelaadlib.blogspot.com/2009/05/liberia-owes-me-hair-band.html
Waking this morning at 3:30 am, finding Blue Crush on, I felt a little spark. I thought of Owen (5), Eliza (2), and Graham (3 weeks). I’d love to be the mom who followed her dream and learned to surf at thirty-six. When things seem a little tricky in a marriage, somehow a day at the beach brings it all back to being outside and taking time to be with the people you love. I’d love to take this board to the beach, try something new, and have some fun, as mom, as a wife, as a woman.
We take so much for granted here in Hawaii – the weather, beautiful ocean and ability to enjoy diverse water sports and activities. But do you know who never takes such things for granted? Those whose physical disabilities prevent them from the simple act of getting wet. To change this, a nonprofit organization called Access Surf works with individuals in wheelchairs and other mobility devices and shares with them the joy of surfing. Should I be chosen to win this fabulous board, I would use it with my friends at Access Surf to support everyone’s right to catch a wave!
Waking up this morning at 3:30 am, finding Blue Crush on with about twenty minutes left, I felt a little spark inside. I thought of Owen (5 years old), Eliza (2 1/2 years old), and Graham (who was nursing away at 3 weeks old). I’d love to be the mom who followed her dream and learned to surf at thirty-six years old. I’d love to be the mom who tried something new. I’d love to be a better mom and take the time to slow down and watch the bubbles form and then pop with Eliza as we go for a walk in the rain. I’d love to treasure those sleepy middle of the night smiles Graham has been dishing out recently. I’d love to work at something I have always wanted to practice more, learning to play the guitar alongside Owen and his love of music. And my husband? We met freshmen year on a blind date seventeen years ago. The beach has always been a place of solace for us, as individuals, a couple, and now as a family. When things seem a little tricky in a marriage, somehow a day at the beach brings it all back to being outside and taking time to be with the people you love. So this surfboard? How do my rambling thoughts connect? I’d love to take this board to the beach, try something new, and have some fun, as a mom, as a wife, as a woman who has benefited from the real Title IX. I’d love to catch a sweet wave and spend some time in the greenroom this summer. Ahhhh.
Mind, body, board – they are all connected and an extension of your being. I love surfing and am always trying to balance the blend of board, surf, soul — but seem to be missing something. I have the surf and soul dialed in, but the board is a problem. I have never had a custom surfboard, only a production “guys” board. A beautiful women’s board would the perfect compliment to an already fantastic adventure, and complete the missing piece. I would be honored and humbled to ride a Carve Designs surfboard. As I close my eyes, I can see myself surfing gracefully, going down the line, and “living large” on my new custom board. What a joy!
I have a dream: a dream to float in stillness on the lake while the swans drift by.
Surfboards are for waves, you say!
That board belongs in the ocean, it’s the only way!
But I’ll start in the lake and find my way to the sea.
I’ll carve out a dream and this one’s just for me.
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 has always spoke to me and let it be known that exotic places lie just beyond the tip of a surfboard, and with one push of a wave I can be there.