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.
“St. Paul, Minnesota!?!” I hear you cry
“The board would pine away; die!”
Not so, here’s why:
I read:
The true adventurer is one who escapes the treadmill of the obvious.”
So when frugality and adventure wed
your board thrives at our local lake instead.
It may not see big breaks
but it’d be happy as it takes
our children out floating on many of 10,000 lakes.
I have dreamed of catching a turquoise curl
but, grew up so Midwestern rural
yet dreams like waves ebb and change in this girl.
Paddle hard…but also go with the flow.
Ding Dong. Here on the shores of friged Lake Superior you wouldn’t expect to find people in the water let alone surfing. Growing up I was a land lubber but after raising two kids it is time for a cool change. In full wetsuit a few brave souls venture out on many days when the surf here on Park Point in Dultuh, MN is just right. I have had dreams of being one of them. Instead, I tried kayaking to get out on the water and just wanted to jump in. Last August I swam across Lake Superior in a two mile race thinking of surfing the whole time. My next adventure will be to take up surfing, I wouldn’t want to become a Land Shark after all!
A cold slap steals my breath reminding me that I am ALIVE! I plod through the foam and duck the first wave. Another and another. I reach the outside and settle. The day evaporates. Lesson plans, tantrums, lymphoma, bills, colonies of mold, none of it can find me here.
The horizon ripples and a billion drops grasp for shore. I position myself in line with the stampede. Paddle, PADDLE, pop up! This is all there is. Again! Again! Again!
I am no longer fragmented. I am whole. My sword is sharpened. I can shield the Earth and her most vulnerable children. I can educate. I can make this place a better one. Don’t you want to help me sleigh dragons?
I do not deserve this sweet board, my friend Erin does. Erin is the ocean. She is generous, intense. Little kids and sailors are drawn to her. Her presence is soothing and consistent.
Erin has had a stormy year. When her husband, a tug boat captain, lost his job, they nearly lost their home. Medical expenses mounting from a brain tumor created further strain. And about a month ago Erin’s father fatally shot himself.
However, during this time, Erin has shown amazing strength and grace and has not forgotten that there are always those less fortunate. She has gone back to school to get a nursing degree so that she can give back.
Erin deserves this board not because of all the bad that has happened to her but because of all the good things that she does for others. I know that in receiving the “stoke” this board would give her she’ll make sure others feel it, too.
This sweet surfboard would be the start of my dream store. I would set it up as the main background for the 1st Surf Store in Alaska. With this beautiful board I would convince my husband of 30 years to teach his grand daughters how to surf the wild waves. It would be the start of re invigorating my family with a common interest of surfing.
Yo dudes, surf’s up! I am 52 years old, just moved 4 miles from the beach and have always wanted to surf. I was an athlete in highschool, received one of the first scholarships awarded to a female to a Cal State University and competed for 3 years. I was also one of the first female pole vaulters EVER! My daughter and son-in-law are avid surfers and this would be such an opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the world from the other side of the waves. Peace out:)
“Mommy, when I grow up, I am going to be a Princess. And a surfer. I am going to be a Surf Princess,” my four year old daughter announced. “But I need surf lessons, okay?” She was three feet tall.
So Caroline Fleming, future Title 9 catalog model, began with lessons in the waves near Kihei. “It’s easy,” she says. “You just pop up like popcorn on the board… and then jump off before you get to the rocks.”
Three years and many hang tens later, the only thing holding her back is the board. She doesn’t have one.
What a gorgeous surfboard!!! I want to use it as a focal point to a room I’m decorating. When I saw this surfboard, I became inspired envisioning it as a centerpiece for either my daughter’s playroom or our guest bedroom. We moved to Austin from Florida. It would be lovely to have this board to decorate a room in honor of our previous home. It could be a beautiful, fun reminder to our daughter that she was born a Floridian, or a tribute to our guests (lots from The Sunshine State) of the beautiful waves of Florida.
I was always told to live life at its highest and try not regreting things,done or undone.I never have surfed but I am always up for a sports challenge.One of my goals is to go to California for a few days with friends,or family and try surfing,so if I got it i would put it in good use.I would make it as an excuse for me and my family to go on an adventure on the west coast!The bettys of the family only,make it a girls trip!Thanks for the opportunity =)
How can I express
My very best
that I would truly love
to be on the water above
free from things that keep you down
or have you tumbling around
It’s a wonderful opportunity
To display this board of beauty
Ok the truth is I have never surfed. I would love the opportunity to learn. I like everyone else know that the water brings a since of peace within…and whoever receives such a reward knows that somehow it restores the fact that we can all Dream and Dream Big! Mother of five, teacher, Volunteer Swim Coach, and swim instructor