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 deserve this surfboard because I’m really good at sharing.
If I were to win, I would share with:
Kathy and Kit who introduced the surf dream when we were young and single,
Their teen twins who see us laughing and still trying,
Melinda who pursued surf dreams on her 40th,
Kelly who delayed them due to chemo,
My book club who lived the dream at Cowell’s,
Neighborhood kids who live the dream in Tahoe,
My daughters who dream with me,
My husband who’s supported those dreams,
And
Who knows who else?
One surfboard…many riders,
Many riders…many dreams.
Please please please please please please please please please please please please let me win this board. It would be the best present I could ever receive and it would really help me out with joining the surf club!!!!! How many people from Colorado do you know that love to surf?
Waiting, Watching
Mom, surfing, it’s the best!
Waiting on my board
Watching sun filter and shimmer the waters.
Startled by the piercing pelican dive
Watching him devour his prey
Heart pounding, senses peaked
A turn of my head
Behold the velvety, sleek head
Soft dark eyes
So close to count his whiskers
Amazing seal!
Unexpected, so new!
Don’t freak
Shark
Thank God
A perfect moment
Graced by the arch of a dolphin.
Son, I’d like to wait and watch with you
Share in your adventure
Maybe carve a wave or two
To win a board would make it true!
I live in Denver, Colorado and I visit my grandmother in Long Island, New York every summer for a month. Four years ago I decided to try a surfing lesson and after five minutes in the water I was hooked! (to say the least). I will be attending my freshman year of college at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island in the fall (I have to be near the ocean). They have a surf club there and even though I am not very good, it is my dream to be on it, but I could really use a board so that I could practice and use it there. It is the perfect size for me to use. I love the rush I get when I drop in on a wave, I even love just to sit out there in the water and watch the swells. I am a very active person, I am a runner, but if I lived near an ocean I would definitely be a surfer girl.
The words I never thought I would hear was “we don’t think your wife is going to survive, you need to prepare yourself.”
They obviously didn’t know my wife like I do.
Women in general are an amazingly strong breed. My wife especially.
She drove herself to the hospital in the middle of the night because she “didn’t want to wake me or the kids up”. She was airlifted to a major medical center hours later. All the doctors thought the worst. Who knew an act so natural as childbirth could take your life. I always knew she would survive. How could she leave me and the girls?
I don’t know what “survivors” go though. I am a survivor, but it wasn’t my life that was endangered. As I watch my wife today, there is something amazingly different about her. It is as if the sky is bluer, or the flowers sweeter. She is training to run a 10 mile race in October. She revels in her sore muscles, she welcomes the pain because I think she knows how much worse it could be.
I wish all the doctors who doubted her resilence could see her now.
Winning the surfboard would be an invitation to conquer.
I am 11 years old. I love being outside. I live in the mountains but everyday the ocean calls. Where I’m from we hike, bike and run alot. We don’t have an ocean nearby, but one day I will live near one. I can’t wait to learn to surf like my friends. I will one day open my own surfing school for children with disabilities. I want to share the wonderful outdoors with all kids. I plan on studying oceanography and marine biology so I can one day work with Shamu and the dolphins. In the meantime, surfing calls!!
I want to have a little bit of fun in life, post-divorce and post-cancer, and before I get too old. (I am already past fifty). So how old is too old for surfing? I love to ski and keep up with my son in the snow. Please give me something to keep up with him in the surf! My son’s boards are not right for me. A nice steady, long board would be so much fun! I can share it with my daughters and friends. My son will give the lessons for a much needed summer job to pay for his last year of college. We will have a blast! When I am past 80, I will use it to illustrate the best stories for my grandchildren.
Karen
To Reconnect
In short and soft memories of being young, I swam in cerulean magnificence,
With that strange air of tension,
The utter excitement,
And the rush of adrenaline that made your toes tingle.
You know, right before that wave broke,
When everything started to get louder, then unexpectedly,
Out of pure exhilaration and fear, your scrawny 8-year-old legs started kicking toward shore,
Atop a dilapidated boogie board with a killer whale on it,
But that board took you into sheer flight,
Sweeping your scrupulous thoughts away,
Into the brilliance of the ocean.
I was exploring the possible ways of celebrating my 50th birthday.A spa day with daughters, sisters and mother, or a rowdy party with coworkers, or learning to surf. A friend (frenemy) suggested a Botox Birthday party with our favorite Barbies’. WHAT?
Surfing was the choice and then Title Nine catalog arrived today! It is this midwestern woman’s destiny to own this board and not be relegated to learn to surf in an indoor water park! What ocean should my surfboard meet first?
I don’t deserve your surfboard. I am not an athlete. If you gave me this surfboard I would probably drown. Instead, you should give it to my sister. She isn’t an athlete either but she has heart. She’s always trying something new (this mom of three recently got a ripstick). I photoshopped a picture of her once in a fabulous dress on a surfboard, representing her goals of losing weight and learning to surf. She lost the weight (and kept it off!) but she hasn’t yet learned to surf. She has the dogged determination–she just lacks the equipment!