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.
My name is Haleigh White, I’m seventeen years old and a senior attending Washington Academy. Got home late last night, sifting through a Title Nine magazine over a cup of tea, wanting just about ever item of clothing in there, when I saw pg 45 ” Wanna win this sweet surfboard?” Immediately I thought of Surf Aid International. Its a program dedicated to alleviating human suffering through community-based health programs. This organization has been built on the backs of surfers dedicated to their cause. I have always always wanted to travel the world, helping people live better and healthier lives. To me, winning this surfboard would be the final nudge to push me into the wave of compassion that carries the love of surfing and the power of healing to thousands of people worldwide.
Love y’alls stuff!
If I won this surf board I would first take all of my friends on a road-trip so we could learn how to surf and make a documentary and scrapbook of our adventure! Then whenever I go to the ocean I would set it up as a place where people could leave their prayers, thoughts, reflections, heartaches, and worries so they could be encouraged and reminded to keep surfin through the ocean of life despite the waves and storms they may encounter! “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!”
After reading some of your other contestants stories, It looks as though there are many deserving individuals to win this surfboard, myself included. I have loved the ocean since I was a baby, spending most summer’s down at the jersey shore. My mother was too scared for me to try surfing back when it was easily available to me. So, to keep her mind at ease, I steared clear of it. I am now a 37 year old mother of two, and would love the opportunity to learn to surf with my own daughter. By the way, her name is Summer.
I would love to win this sweet one-of-a-kind surfboard not for myself, but as a surprise for my sister. She has always wanted to take up surfing having lived in Southern California all her life. She just turned 42 and started to surf last year on used $100.00 surfboards with nicks, dings, and patches all over them. She has always helped other people in volunteering at youth groups like Young Life and her job teaching and coaching the youth of America. I am sure she would say you could find a more deserving person to receive this gift.
My husband and I will be married one year this May. Our marriage went from the “honeymoon stage” to a close separation due to my stepson’s struggle with drugs and alcohol. We often went to bed upset and exhausted from the daily arguments we had over his son’s addiction. The one thing that always got us through those difficult times though was our love for the water and going to the beach to watch the surfers. The water has been a blessing to the both of us and what a beautiful surfboard to have to be reminded of that.
I would love to surf on the ocean waves,
And the carve surfboard win would be so fine,
Its what I long to do and my body just craves,
To win this sweet board at title nine.
Its pretty and cool and the graphics are neat,
I could ride the waves with glee,
I can feel it as I carve a wave under my feet,
That this magnificent feeling of free.
Three children I have birthed,
37 years a good wife,
Now it time to connect in the surf,
And to make the best of my life.
I will take my grandchildren and teach them to surf
So they can fall in love with it too,
I will play on the ocean with the love of my life.
And surf in the ocean blue.
i am 55 years old. i have recently lost over 50 lbs. i have been trying to get back into shape. my dream is to finally get out there and face one of my worst fears…the almighty ocean. when i was a young girl, i loved swimming and playing in the ocean. i had no fear. as i grew older, fears began to develop when i lost a close friend to the ocean. ever since, i have not been able to go back into the ocean. it is something i am determined to overcome and conquer before i leave this earth.
At 15 years old, not wanting to lie on the beach with all the girls, I bought a 6-foot Wave Riding Vehicle, and went out in the ocean with all the guys. I was one of the original women surfers of the 60s and 70s–at least on the East Coast (Virginia Beach, VA and Cape Hatteras, N.C. Most of the five years of my surfing there, I was the only female. Boards did not have leashes back then, and whenever anyone wiped out, it was a swim for the board, but being the only girl, mine was often retrieved for me.
Now at 55 years, out here on the west coast of California, near Malibu, I boogie board at County Line. I am surprised to see that I am still often the only female going beyond the break and catching waves. A couple of years ago, after catching a a five-foot zooming wave, a guy said he thought I was 15 years old. When you have that grin of exhilaration on your face, you become ageless.
Why I deserve this board is because I enjoy the surf (and life) so much. It has not diminished with age.
Local Lesson Learned
I took up lessons once
I got up on my first try
Then I nearly died
Not because of waves
But lack of understanding
The “unwritten code”
No one had told me
Wave surfer behind you “wins”
Especially, locals
Humiliated
I was yelled at, no knowing
Shades of un-sun, red
Try, try, try again
Up on the board I shall rise
With humility