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.
Every once in a while a person should win. Not always, not big, but once in a while.
That once in a while creates a little hope, allows another dream, eliminates a little fear.
When that happens, the world changes a little bit.
So, as silly as it may seem, this surfboard could change the world.
Isn’t that really the point?
Isn’t the residual energy of hope and dreams and the dissolution of fear what really nourishes us?
Oddly, turns out this surfboard created a little hope, allowed a little dream and maybe will change the world a little bit.
I’ve been active all my life; soccer, softball, skiing, swim team, marathon, and century ride. Then I got married for a second time, his 3 kids, my 2 made it difficult to continue playing/managing the women’s soccer team and training for rode races. My gears switched and I coached my daughters’ soccer team, volunteered at the boys’ baseball games and started working out every morning at a gym. I started mountain biking with my daughter and cycling with my husband. And at lunchtime I play ping-pong tourneys with my co-workers. This board would be so much fun!
As an adolescent psychologist, I help young women with eating disorders and anxiety discover their resilience. Helping them to increase self-confidence and fear failure less depends on pursuing these goals myself. Last year, I began surfing on a rental longboard in Santa Cruz, CA. Although my pop-up took awhile to emerge due to my fused spine, I’ve loved moving in tandem with the natural energy of the ocean. Having my own 7’ board would inspire me to learn how to carve on a wave and rejuvenate my mind/body through surfing so I can continue to pass on positive energy.
There is no local break. So what would a 38 year old mother of two preschoolers, proprietor of two small businesses and lifelong resident of Vermont do with a surfboard?
As a snow boarder and wake boarder, I have long desired to attempt surfing. Years ago I became one of the first female “riders” at Mount Snow. Now I will become one of the first to surf Lake Whitingham. With this beautiful board, I’ll learn to surf the wake behind our boat, on a lake that is nestled deep within New England’s ski country, far away from the ocean.
MISSING PERSON: 5’4” – red hair (usually in a pony) – super active and fun!
Well, that was me before 3 kids and car pools and poopy diapers and mess, mess and more mess! Just reading your catalog the other day with its sweet clothes made me feel young, fun and athletic again. Winning the surfboard could be the catalyst to solving the mystery and “finding me.” I live by the Jersey Shore and would just have to take up surfing (a life-long dream). Just writing this essay has been fun and has ignited a spark of excitement that has been missing – thanks for your consideration and keep making awesome, fun and adventureous stuff!
I can’t help but
Stand and watch the
Sea-warriors mount their
Trusty boards that follows
Them loyally.
The monster beneath them
Curls wildly, foaming and
Spraying. The sound of it’s
Brothers and sisters crashing
On the shore.
My anticipation peaks, my heart
Yearns, my mind captures this
Image to stow away this precious
Moment. It’s an image I’m
Accustomed to. It’s a moment
I want to personally experience.
It’s a moment suspended in time.
I’ll be 18 this Wednesday, and my dream is to learn to surf! Please help me!
For the past thirteen years I have spent almost every waking hour making sure others were being taken care of. For six years I taught in inner city schools, working 60+ hours a week trying to help my students achieve. The next seven I spent doing childcare in my home to pay the bills but still be with my two daughters. Unfortunately, I have neglected myself and my health, which has taken its toll. Now it’s time for me. Could there be a more powerful way to heal and grow strong than surfing? And what an example to set.
I felt like a voyeur, hanging out for years surrounded by cool surfers in the South Bay of LA in surfer bars. Watching surf videos to me is like poetry.
Transplanted now to Dominical, Costa Rica where the waves beckon and champion surfer chicks rip it up daily. Suddenly the videos became reality.
I’d like to literally immerse myself in this cool culture with the salty buff mermen.
Title Nine gives us girl power; we’ll show the boys how this is done!
I could stop standing by the sidelines being a voyeur… if only I had a sweet ride!
Dear Judges. If you don’t know Alfred E Neuman, Google him, then read my entry.
What, me worry? Right now, I have no known illnesses. I am fighting for no great cause, but will support physically, emotionally and financially any that I can. I have accepted that worrying is futile. I hope to win the surf board and enjoy riding the waves. If I don’t, I’ll ride, anyway. To all those other women hoping to win, learn to surf, anyway. Teach your children, anyway. Life’s too short to miss making it happen, just because you didn’t win the board.
I envision, my classroom full of pre-schoolers, taking turns,standing barefoot on a 7 foot surfboard, practicing their surf moves, feeling their self esteem blossom.Sitting in the playground sand around their board, talking about who lives in the ocean, what a balanced eco-system is, why it is important to take care of the earth and ocean and what marine biologists and oceanographers do! IMAGINATION, PASSION, POSSIBILITIES! This is more than a surfboard, it,s a beautiful and amazing learning tool! What joy it would bring to our classroom! Teacher Lori, The “Dolphin” Class