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.
23-year-old son invites 50ish mom on vacation to free surf lessons STOP OMG Maybe she’s no longer dogmeat STOP Lesson day approaches. How’s her calcium? Would hate to break hip right there on beach STOP Sun rises to perfect waves STOP Here comes a good one, don’t stop! She’s almost up–everyone cheers. Life is good. She’s hooked. Husband misses photo ops STOP Days later, back home, Title Nine catalogue arrives in husband’s name. She takes a look; loves the clothes STOP “Wanna win this sweet surfboard?” STOP You bet. Must be fate! Husband could be vindicated.
Saga of a miss-it, missus; a pre-war baby in lieu of baby boomer. Proud new housewife was I when women’s lib appeared. (No-one else would have been caught dead in my aspired to housedresses.) I’m a stay at home Mom while others go to work. My daughters did sports | viewed as un-lady like. Now they run marathons while the grandchildren skateboard and surf. Is it too late for an almost seventy nana to join the hippie movement? No drugs, sex & rock-n-roll, but perhaps a little healthy soul? I’d look darn cool on that flower board.
I am a second grade teacher in the Northwest Georgia city of Rome. I teach Early Intervention Program (for at-risk kids). My kids have not had many experiences in their life and I do my best to provide them with rel-life examples to build up their schema about the world. I am from Florida and have a hard time getting kids to understand the joy of the ocean. My kids think a local man-made lake is “the beach”! I am actually planning on trying to make my classroom over next school year into a beach theme to try and share my love of the ocean and all things more fully with my class!! This surfboard would be the perfect addition to my beach themed classroom. I was thinking it would be perfect to turn into a table top for the reading and writing center. It could be inspiration for many ocean/beach themed stories!!!
The sound of the surf is like a siren song. From Nauset Beach on Cape Cod, to Hampton Beach in NH, to the shores of St. John and Paradise Island, the lure of the waves pulls me toward the water. Their energy renews me like no other elixir. To catch a wave is to catch serenity. To feel the pull of the tide is to feel the pull of nature toward her center. It is peace defined.
Being a woman has meant two very wonderful things for me; Independence and strength.
My mother raised me as a single mom during the 70’s in Huntington Beach California. She was very supportive of my love of the beach, and my competitive drive. Most of all my girl friends were involved in sports, and we were all drawn to guys who surfed.
The epiphany came for me the day I decided to “beat the boys at their own game” by surfing…this board will go on my wall and ever remind me….a woman can conquer all the waves of life.
Two years ago at the age of 45 I began surfing. I was lousy but kept practicing because surfing was so much fun. Last year I tried to surf in Puerto Rico, I almost died by drowning because my arms were not strong enough to get me through the break. So when I got home, I began working out three times a week to build my strength so I could be a bettter surfer this summer in the cold waters of New Hampshire. I had forgotten how much I loved to move my body over the years sitting behind my computer. Orginally, I wanted the Title IX board for my friends, nieces or sisters so I could have someone else to surf with…you see I love my yellow flowered board. It matches my yellow mini cooper. After reading everyone else’s blogs there are so many other women out there who deserve the board. Please give it to one of them…and thanks for letting us share our stories.
I’ve been on a surfboard once….in the last 30 years. Prior to that, I learned to surf on Waikiki Beach in the 60’s where my grandparents went on vacation in 1958 and never came home – how cool is that? I got the opportunity to visit them 3 times from the cold (and then remote) state of Maine. On my last visit there, they bought me a surfboard, yellow with a black stripe up the middle and a cool ‘flower power’ decal – that was my addition. I was driven to Waikiki Beach every day to ‘hang ten’. The waves were small but I was on top of the world until the board was stolen off the top of the VW bug. Wonderful time of my life that I would love to relive.
Unless you are a below 5′ and weigh maybe 90 pounds, learning on a 7′ board will be a truly frustrating experience. I taught myself a few years ago at age 47 on a 8’4″ beautiful Surf Diva board after abandoning my initial attempts on a more performance 7’6″. Last summer I transitioned down to a bland but decent 6’10”. A reasonable board for most conditions, but still miss the lovely girly flowered board. Honestly, I don’t need another board. Yet, this board would most likely become my “daily board”, especially if it is thicker than my shorter board, thus easier to paddle with speed. More speed equals MORE waves. More waves translate to more smiles; leading to a happier and more fulfilling day.
“Live life to the fullest and have fun while doing”. That is what I often tell my daughters ages 12,12 and 10. We would certainly have fun and my girls would get a lot of laughs surfing especially watching their mom surf at the ripe young age of 47:) Thanks and be well.
As a grandma of five
I’m not very “cool”
I can’t really surf
And I SINK in a pool!
But I dream of that board
It would make my heart lift
To give my granddaughter
As her July birthday gift!
The Jersey shore’s ocean
Is her special place
She dives in head first
And gives fishes a race!
But, alas and alack,
I don’t have the dough
To buy her this board
And be her hero!
Help me light that spark
In her eyes and her heart
If I win that board,
I’ll REALLY look smart!