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.
Why do I deserve this surfboard? I don’t think I deserve this surfboard, but I really WANT it!!!I Two years ago I was going to learn to surf with my kids but became ill (breast cancer) beat it & this would be the first year I could really get out there & enjoy it. Just had my 48th bday & realize life is short not to enjoy & do the things you want to do! I live at the shore so the kids & I would get plenty of board time in!! I just need a handsome instructor to assist me in my quest to become an example for the older/finer ladies who are not afraid to get out there & experience life!
I do not live by the ocean blue
But if I won that board here’s what we’d do
My 4-year old quadruplets are learning to swim
We’d head over to Lake Michigan and dive right in
We’d have tea parties, make forts and have board races
And mom would dream of surfing in far-off places
I’d bring it to my next tri to impress my friends
With kids and imagination, the fun never ends
And when it gets cold again and snow begins to fall
It would look pretty sweet upon my boys’ wall.
In October 2006,on my Hawaiian honeymoon, I learned how to surf on a way overwaxed rented surfboard.I had so much fun swinging from the chandelier with my husband that we caused an 6.7 earthquake on the big island. In February 2008 I had a stroke at thirty-eight years old, secondary to a congenital anomaly. I lost the use of the left side of my body. Now 15 months later, I have graduated from physical therapy and I am still working on getting the use of my left arm and hand back. Once I have fully recovered, am ready to head back to Hawaii and learn how to surf .I can’t wait to feel the surge of a wave again. I would love to win a smashing new board so I can forgo the icky rental.Thank you for reading. I wish this was a creative piece but unfortuntely it is true.
Oh, what would I do with it?
I’m 82 and earned every wrinkle.
Still. That board deserves a good home.
I’ve got the perfect spot on my front porch,
gazing out at the Atlantic Ocean…
Now, the house isn’t fancy.
It’s been weathered by 9 children, 18 grandchildren, their friends,
several large dogs, and whoever else shows up.
Believe me, no surfboard goes lonely here.
When the waves are good the porch is EMPTY.
Even little Ava-Grace -who’s 4- is fearless.
“You go Grandma!” she says.
One of these days, I might.
“Seize your life,” “Seize the day,” Seize THIS moment,” are my daily mantras. So is “Live a life worth remembrance.” Well, surfing must be the ultimate example of living in the moment. Focus, thrill, action are all rolled into one–anything else, and the ride is lost. Having this surfboard is another step toward a life well-lived, a life of participation, a life that shows others ANYTHING is possible. I want to live! I want to SURF!
I turned 40 in April and have lived in Florida for 28 years. My husband surfs and I have tried in the past to surf, however was never able to stand up. Last week, my husband took me to the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii to celebrate my birthday and as a second honeymoon (we were married on Oahu 16 years ago) for us.
While there, I surfed at the world famous Sunset Beach with our friend who’s a surf instructor on the island. At first, I still could not stand up and was frustrated. I just was so worried about standing, that I did not enjoy the ride. Finally, I just relaxed and enjoyed the beautiful water, reef below and scenic coast of the North Shore. Well, once I relaxed, I was able to stand up on the board and ride the wave all the way into shore. It was amazing!!! I am now, at 40, going to become a surfer, luckly I live in a great place to surf. Life is good!
Karen Yorio
Here in rainy Portland, Oregon I have spent my last eight months studying architecture and earning my Sustainable Building Certificate. Three days a week I am in school and the other four I work. It has been a sacrifice being only 21, but I pulled off a 4.0 GPA last term and hope to finish off strong! All I have getting me though this term is my upcoming trip to Costa Rica. My goal is to learn to surf there but I am surfboard-less! All I need to complete my trip and a successful year is this board!!!!!!
Being recent transplants to CA from Boston, we have been rapidly discovering the many pleasures of SoCal. My 16 yr old daughter learned to surf last summer, and it was definitely love at first sight. Since then she’s been longing for a board, researching them and saving her hard earned money. She is frequently “busted” for reading about boards and surfing magazines when she should be doing her homework! This new found passion for surfing has finally made CA home for a young lady who thought her heart was back east.
I have always loved surf boards, since I tried to learn to surf as a teen.
There is so much great history in surf boards and of course the sport.
I have tried a few more times, but my need of a nose clip always does me in!
So now I just love looking at the boards at surf shops, the designs are incredible
and I have dreamed of having one to try down in Pacifica once again in my old/young age!
Sure would be fun to be on that beauty of a board from Carve Designs!
Thanks for reading.
Tina
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Your beautiful blue bed of flowers, the Carve 7 footer for Title Nine, would have a perfect home with me at Kuilima (which is Turtle Bay on the North Shore of Oahu). It would be housed in a nice condo and surfed at Kammie’s and Sunset. It would be on display to the guests inside and talked about in the water, promoting the sustainably made methods along the way. I would put a nice Da Kine leash on her and take her out often as possible. She would be a perfect board to go to after many years of using my eight footer that we traded a white Astrovan and $400 to the glasser who wanted the van for a friend to live in and he also let me decorate the board for three days with a sun and rainbow and sea creatures before he glassed it. I think the seven footer’s story totally beats the old eight footers story, whoever wins it, but please let me have it, I would really love her. She would have a great life with me. Mahalo and Aloha. Julie