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.
Behold the Teal Title Nine Surf Board for all to see. The nine is significant to me, for I am a 9 year survivor with the Teal Ribbon Disease. It is Ovarian Cancer that makes my life a fight with three surgeries, a bone marrow transplant and chemo to no delight. But it is fitness that has helped this fight. It is running, walking or tennis tonight, soon it could be the Teal Surf Board helping me fight. The bucket list is long for a fight that will go on and soon I will be living my dream on the beach with a sabbatical fit for a fitness cancer queen. So sisters arise for the Teal Board may make the sun rise and always you need to know the symptoms if they arise: it is bloating, constipation or pain which is persistent. Listen to your great temple and be insistent for women’s health is a priority we all need to make. Take time to surf or it might be too late.
SUNRISE SURFING
A simple straw basket
Catalogs rest
Opened on top
T9
Pool tropics
Wave-surfing contest!
A hint from my husband
Wishful thinking or
Simply a picture of a
Beautiful board.
Imagine
Sun Salutation
Soft morning air
Infusing Cafe blend
A juicy mango
Licking trails off your hand.
Awake, excited
Anticipation awaits
Secured T9 board
To the shore I will take.
A dream for sure
Never even came close
T9 inspired me
Dared me with desire.
Dazzle you, I truly hope
Awesome, it would be
Winning, I’d become
The coolest Grandma on the sea!
As a single mom I have been blessed with a 6yr old girl with a spirit as large as the ocean and determination to go along with it. The one thing I promised myself is to set an example for her and so one day I can be her hero. Winning this board means surfing more and teaching her to appreciate the sport along with the power and beauty of the ocean. To be able to see her smile and say she is proud of me is what this board will bring.
surfing… I feel it like a heartbeat surfing… I feel it constantly surfing… at the edge of my consciousness surfing… like a part of me that belongs surfing… to something bigger then myself surfing… is calling me surfing… and even though it leaves me surfing… a little scared (in that good way!) surfing… and a lot in love with the possibility surfing… that something so beautiful surfing… could make me feel whole surfing… I want to find that part of myself surfing… that belongs on a surfboard surfing… I want to take that first ride of my life… surfing
As a 47 (almost 48) year old recently divorced Mom to a 17 year old son, I often wonder if my life is over. Am I old and “washed” up? I have always loved the water and learning to surf has been a longtime secret dream. This board would be a constant reminder to always pursue my dreams and an incentive to make those dreams a reality, no matter what my age is. I feel 25, maybe it’s time to act it???
I believe winning this “sweet surfboard” would open up the world to a richly diverse group of first graders I volunteer with. Giving this surfboard to them and sharing it with the entire school would be a symbolic vehicle to teach students in the Midwest about surfing, wind conditions, wave size, differences in surfboard design, and topography of the seabed. Beyond that, we could teach them about the ocean ecosystem, sportsmanship, having dreams and setting personal goals. The joy these students have brought into my life is only the beginning of the wonderful things they will be giving the world in the years to come!
It’s always a challenge trying to convey the desire of having a dream fulfilled to someone. But here goes..! What would I do? Well, first I’d fall off a couple hundred times, get scratched up by seashells and rocks, get a rash, get a sunburn, ingest gallons of seawater, scream, cry, laugh and then, in a moment like no other, it will click. The board steady, my fear faded, I will stand atop this beauty and salute the sun and sea and in utter exaltation I’ll SURF! SURF! and then SURF! some more.. and live happily ever after. 🙂
For eight years we lived in Jackson, WY, where the wilderness has sunk its teeth into freedom and refuses to let go. The Milky Way dances unabated in the black coffee night, the Tetons stand in fierce defiance to human achievement, and a moose eats the hedge behind the house, making the walk to the school bus an adventure. Three years ago suburbia lured us in under the ruse of responsibility and family ties, but a longing for the wild is still raw. The Carve surfboard would be the perfect reminder never to settle for less than our dream.
There are many seasons in our lives. My latest season is mother of five children on the Oregon coast. Over the past fifteen years we have packed up playpens, sand toys, wetsuits and enough food for a fun day at the beach. My husband surfs and I have been content to squeeze an hour of body boarding in between my duties as family lifeguard. I now push the twins into waves on their boards and will soon be the only nonsurfer of the family. My goal this summer is to surf. My new season? Freedom to surf!
I need this surfboard like I’ve never needed anything before. The kids are growing up, the husband is out of shape, and I am a floundering middle aged woman who wants to reclaim her youth and her adventurous spirit before hitting crisis mode. Surfing is something I’ve always wanted to do and now that I live in Oregon, not Wyoming, I wanna do it!
Riding away on a wave to my future.
Forgetting times gone awry.
The gallbladder’s gone and so are the sutures.
Time to catch that wave and fly!
Dressed to the “T” in Title Nine duds.
Coasting from shore on my tummy.
Not too old to check out the studs.
That eye candy sure is yummy!
The adrenaline’s pumping,
I stand up on the board
The heart is a thumpin’
And the waves are a’roar
Down I go, I tumble, ‘glub’ ‘glub’
You see now I’m dreaming, I’m just a big dope
I’m at home in my bathtub
with my soap on a rope…