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.
Because I have been helping millions of Africans living and dying with AIDS every day…because I have been helping women and children survive gender-based violence in Africa…because I was helping trafficking victims in Eastern Europe…because I have been helping famine survivors in West Africa….Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-and usually on weekends for the past nineteen years…because after “saving the world” during my working life and suffering burn out, this native Californian wants to win this surfboard to remind me to retire to California and start taking care of myself after having done my best for the rest of the world!
Surfing. The energy of the waves, beating in unison with my heart. Mind is clear. 6am, sun is rising. Alone, feeling … confidence, anticipation, fear, overwhelming joy, connected to every moment, every wave coming from me and to me, all at once.
Labor with Piper. The energy of the contractions, beating in unison with my heart. Mind is focused. 2am, Brad’s in Iraq. Alone, feeling … confidence, anticipation, fear, overwhelming joy, connected to every movement, every wave of energy from me to her, all at once.
To have my daughters experience such peace would be an amazing gift.
My son, daughter & I were victims of a serious car accident on 12/30/07. I sustained 25 fractures: 15 throughout my left lower leg (which required an external fixator & then a steel plate), 6 breaks in the pelvis (front, back, left & right), chipped tailbone & several broken ribs. Also, I lost a kidney and suffered an open wound. After 11 surgeries and tons of rehabilitation the thing I most enjoy is being in the healing waters, I would find having a surf board a delight to watch my kids ride the waves with their cousin in Guam!
Yesterday my mom, Debbie Fuentes, closed her retail store in Claremont, California. Her reasoning might come as a surprise to most, she wanted to go surfing! In April she attended an all women’s surf camp in Hawaii where she discovered true happiness out on the water. I would love to have the experience my Mom discovered in Hawaii. We have surfed together in the past but never on my own board. If I had my own surfboard I know my Mom and I would have endless happiness together on the ocean.
HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY RIDING ON A NEW CARVE SURFBOARD, HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY TO ME!
What better way to ring in the 2nd half of life than a new sport and a new board?
Thank you!
Elisabeth
be inspiration
this surf board
inspires me to play
more, be strong, confident,
take time for me, inspire others.
I deserve this surf board
to be my inspiration. I plan to strap
it to the top of my car, in Eagle, CO,
never leaving it, taking it with me
to work, day care, the grocery
store…until I pack my family
up and head for the surf.
I dream of the shear
existential joy,
of paddling
my heart out,
to rise with
balance
and strength, to feel the smooth guiding force from mother nature below.
My 4 year dream is to be healed so that I can surf. The sweet board from CARVE/Entropy will give me my first ride. I have a trache from yelling at my high school students therefore keeping me from submerging into water. Yet when I’m healed, there will be a huge surf party when I take my first ride on a new surfboard. Surfing was a huge part of my life, my soul & my time. It’s temporarily put on the shelf, but the ocean is always there for me to float, relax & unwind. Surfing is that & much more. I’d like to create a way for people with traches to surf. A nice ride on a sweet surfboard is to be desired. 🙂
I just turned 35 last week and I know that this is the time for me. I am a mom to two wonderful little boys; Jack 5 and Riley 3, I am a wife of 8 years (April Fool’s Day wedding), and I have a solid job in higher education, but now is the time for me. Time for me makes me a better wife, a better mother, a better employee. So how does this relate to wanting a surfboard? I have decided to not put off anything I value or want to try. I live on the North Shore of Lake Superior, which is about 39 degrees year round. There is a small group of diehard surfers with their dry suits who ride the waves of the greatest of the Great Lakes, I want to be one of them. Now that I am 35 nothing will stop me from trying new and challenging things. Now is time for me.
Women who’ve never surfed before DESERVE a surfboard. Surfing is an experience beyond anything else. Exihliration barely describes the first ride on a wave or the first attempt to nearly stand on a surfboard. It is an awesome encounter being carried by a wave allowing few moments of feel gliding through gravity in liquid form. You find yourself in a place you’ve never been before and you want more and more of it every moment of the day, or night. 🙂 Women who’ve never surfed before should be required to experience such as thing as this.
Surfing has always been a part of my life, as I was born and raised on Maui, but it didn’t become a passion until I surfed on a shortboard in Costa Rica when I was 22. From then on, I was hooked. But then, a short 5 years later, I met my prince and had babies. Now I am 35 years old, with a butt that rather lay down than stand up, and breasts that look like they belong to two different women. I am ready to surf again and reclaim some dignity, and of course look good doing it!