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.
2008- murder case, divorce, financial struggles, three young boys, move, rebuild, start over.
2009 – new job, new house, new challenges – a new escape.
Surf Camp – Costa Rica. New friends. New destination. A new release, meditation, exhaustion, invigoration. A completely selfish moment where I am part of it all.
Saturday mornings. Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. Me on my new Carve Design board (I call her Mona) carrying a piece of that freedom into my life on a sustainable basis.
I am stronger at 40 than ever before in my life. A mom of three, a lawyer and a novice surfer. But surfing is part of how I now define myself. It is meditation and an exhausting physical challenge. I have been an athlete my whole life; I snow ski, mountain bike, water ski, run, kayak, sail, hike and play vicious badminton. Surfing gives me the release, exercise, fullfillment and complete consumption I have been looking for in a sport my whole life.
I would use this board.
My son surfs and how great would it be to ride together!
Recently I was diagnosed with a serious, life changing illness. To this day, I remain in the fighting stage. My daily routine consists of a 3 mile walk, and afternoon lap swimming to stay strong.
I have two great boys who surf daily and would love to be able to join them to which bring us all together. Life is too short and I realize now is the time to get started and join the surfing circuit. By carving some local waves, I can enjoy the air, ocean and my family all for free.
Truly Good Karma for Life!
Jane Dupont
4510 Chateau Drive
San Diego, Ca 92117
858-220-3755 (cell)
I found surfing in March of 2009 on the eve of my 40th birthday.
I am a prosecutor that spent two years on the biggest murder case in New Hampshire history. It was a massive 3 month long trial, and at the end the defendant was found guilty. It wrung me out physically, spiritually and emotionally.
I also had gone through a heart wrenching divorce, lost most of the friends during the process, had to move into a new home, struggle financially, shelter and nurture my three boys, and hold myself together despite everything within me wanting to break down. At the end of the most grueling years I could imagine, I gave myself a reward that I had always wanted – surf camp in Costa Rica.
I found friends, beauty and rest in Costa Rica, but most importantly, I found a release, sport and meditation tied up in one. When I am surfing, I can’t think of anything else. It is the only way to make my mind go blank- to stop the mental madness of to-do lists and guilt. I am free when I surf. For a single mom of three boys with a demanding job, this is priceless. If I am given this board, you will find my at North Beach in Rye every Saturday and Sunday morning; meditating, smiling and free, giving myself a reward for persevering each week.
Even though I learned to surf as a teenager, I attended college in Boulder and raised my “land locked” kids there. My son got the surfing bug from me, and while stationed in N.C. learned how to surf. He is newly stationed in San Diego and eagerly awaiting to be ripping in the Pacific. I am 51. I WAS Title 9 before there was Title 9. I am planning on sharing a quintessential moment when I can get “clean” with my marine corps captain. It will be an honor to get in the zone with him and my T9er stick.
Hello! I’m an official desert rat I grew up and currently live in New Mexico. Obviously I have never learned how to surf since living on sand doesn’t present those kind of opportunities however this will soon change for me.
I will be leaving this state of many cultures to move to Hampton, Virginia which is next to the Atlantic ocean. I’m leaving behind many friends and a profession that I love (I’m an elementary physical education teacher) and this new adventure saddens me but at the same time I’m viewing it as an exciting new chapter in my life.
I plan on learning how to surf but I don’t want to start on this board, it’s too nice! If it were possible my dream with this board would be to donate it to the Susan G. Komen for the cure. We are so much closer to finding a cure to breast cancer but still have a long way to go. I am not a breast cancer survivor but I have many friends and relatives that are survivors or have lost an enduring battle with breast cancer. This surf board could be used as a metaphor of riding the “waves” of cancer! We are all on board to beating this disease and finding a cure and we will not give up just like a surfer doesn’t give up in finding the perfect wave!
Rock on! Is what I say!!
I have always had a fear of the ocean even being a competive swimmer. My husband and I recently visited my brother in San Diego. He took us surfing one moring. My fear of the ocean seemed to leave as I was trying to catch a wave. Mother of three living in New England, translation opportunity and conditions for surfing not good. Now that my kids are getting to school age I am finding that I have space in my life to think about surfing in the ocean instead of playing in the sand.
Surfing has always fascinated me, but I could kick myself that I waited until last year when I was 46 years old to take my first surf lesson. Well, maybe it was a good idea I waited, because I “fell in love” and can’t get enough! Now, I go to surf shops and talk waves with the local boys. And I am always looking at surf board prices. I want a surf board so badly! What a fantastic opportunity it would be to win this beauty and teach other women like myself how to “fall in love” with surfing. Thanks!
I am a woman, a daughter, a sister, a wife, an aunt, a friend and your neighbor. Forty two years old, I was just born younger. It is what’s in your heart and mine is youthful, strong and full of spirit. My hobbies are running, cycling, kayaking, canoeing, snowboarding and now it’s time to add surfing. Catching a wave has been a lifelong dream. The spirit of adventure is what guides me to do the unexpected, always reaching for my dreams, progressing at whatever I choose to accomplish in sports or in life. I would be honored and stoked to receive this sweet ride.
Yours truly,
Dianne