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.
Lately, I do things that scare me. Like playing my songs in front of people and starting my band. Bought my first bike last year. When I was four, my mother took me to the school lot and shamed me for being unteachable. She wouldn’t give me a tissue. I had to blow my nose on my shirt and everyone saw, so that’s what bikes stood for. At thirty five I’d had enough. I longed to be a silky spandex blur. Arthritis made me quit running. Next- surfing. After that, teaching cycling and surfing to inner city teenage girls.
I am petrified of waves and deep water, of the creatures of uncertainty and unknown that lurk below. As a single rock climbing investment banker approaching thirty, I am trying to carve out a controlled existence on the edge. After a year of extreme loss of control, of loved ones and the so often accompanying loss of self, what better opportunity to reevaluate perceived limits, accept a new challenge? So this spring, the season of rebirth and renewal, I tried and fell in love with surfing, riding the waves of entropy in this ecstatic struggle that we call life!
I am writing you not for myself but my wonderful wife. We met 12 years ago in Santa Barbara and went surfing for our first date. Eight years ago we moved to the Sacramento area for work and she has given birth to our two lovely daughters. Needless to say she has lost her surfing stoke. This winter she loaned her board to a friend only to have it returned in half. So I’m writing you to say nothing would be better to help save a drowning mother than to stoke her surfing soul with this beautiful board.
Never Give Up. I remember lying in the hospital bed when my brother gave me a picture of a frog getting eaten by a crane – except that the frog had a tight hold on the crane’s neck so it couldn’t swallow it. I knew despite everything that was happening, I couldn’t just give up. If not for my two year old daughter at the time or for the baby I was carrying but for myself. When the doctors rushed me to the hospital after a routine sonogram check up, I was at my lowest. I didn’t know if I wanted to stay with my husband, I didn’t know if I would be able to go back and pick up on finishing my masters program and I didn’t know if I would lose the baby I was carrying. I was 4 months pregnant and the specialist found that my cervix was opening up and if I didn’t get a cerclage done (to sew up my cervix), I would definitely lose this baby. The risk would be that she would survive but possibly with high health risks. As it turned out, I was placed on strick bed rest until it was time to deliver with a belly monitor to monitor my contractions. It didn’t help that I had lost my prior baby at six months of pregnancy. But that one piece of paper that my brother showed me gave me strength and the best inspiration to NOT GIVE UP. I’ve always wanted to learn how to surf and getting the opportunity to win a surf board is truly inspirational. I’ve since had another baby who recently turned two. I would love to win this surf board and take my family out for our first surf lesson. Thank you.
I am not a surfer.
I am a mother.
With a 4 year old boy,
And a 4 hour daily commute.
I don’t have a bucket list, or a cause, or anyone to impress.
Except for my son who loves to surf.
And wants to teach mommy how.
He made me a surfboard out of cardboard and paint.
I cherish it, but can’t ride it.
To receive this board would mean that I could learn with him
And not stand aside watching
And wishing
That I could surf with the boys too.
For years I’ve vacationed in LBI
It’s on the Jersey shore
I watch the surfers ride the waves
From my beach chair and my door
I’ve always wanted to try surfing
It looks so free, fun and fine
But I’ve been to busy running marathons
In apparrel from Title 9
I’m hanging up my running shoes
Well, at least for a while
I’d love to win the surfboard
And buy a suit from Title 9 to ride in style!
oh yeah! my very own surfboard!!!! what a dream come true.
However, if I was chosen out of all of these deserving women to have the surfboard…I would have to take is as an omen, a sign. I would have no more reasons to deny my current dream to radically change my life, so I could surf each day. After 30 years of living in the town I was raised in in the mountains, I would take my family and move to El Salvador. I would uproot my husband, and 2 year old daughter for the next three years and go have an adventure and acquire experiences in our life rather than belongings. Our daughter could learn spanish. Hopefully, I could get my husband to come into the ocean with me.
We would eat mangoes, avocadoes and fish.
This maybe unbelievable but is TRUE. I have a 6 yr old. When she was 5 the only thing she wanted for Xmas was a snowboard that was it. So she got one and was pretty good. For her 6th birthday all she wanted was a skimmer board and she got it. (Those 1 things plus a few very small others) This past Christmas all she wanted was a surfboard (we live less than a hour from Myrtle Beach), but I could not give her one. You see my Doctors pulled me out of teaching in Oct. due to extreme stress from a hostile work enviroment so I had to go on long term disablilty which just started in Jan and isn’t that much but will not complain. The Doctors want me to exercise. I think a surfboard would shock my daughter, be greater exercise for me, but BEST all give us great MOTHER/DAUGHTER time.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Barbie ward 🙂
I wanna win this sweet surfboard for my daughter, Calley, who is a Tourism Management major at Indiana University. Calley had a recurring dream all through her childhood of driving around with a surfboard on top of her car. Not an ordinary dream when you live in southern Indiana!. Two years ago she did an internship in Hawaii. Her Hawaiian friends taught her how to surf. Today she is in New Zealand for another internship. When I reminded her that it is winter there, she replied “no worries’, I’ll wear a wetsuit”.
This is more thoughtful than creative, but justly so. You see, my mother is pretty amazing. She doesn’t give me gadgets most teenagers want (ipods,etc.). Instead, I ask for and receive much cooler stuff like scuba classes and a surfboard. (Yes, a surfboard!) Why am I asking for another one? Well, that should be obvious, but in case you haven’t figured it out…I thought it would be nice if somebody decided to stop taking all she does/gives for granted and looked after her for a change. She deserves this. It’s as simple as that.
(written by her daughter, Cinnamon)