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.
I’ll be the first to admit,growing up and living in Wisconsin, leaves few opportunities to, “ride the waves”. I have seen more waves of snow and ice than I care to remember and yet the urge to try surfing bubbles up inside of me like the summer waves of my daydreams. Ten years ago a colleague and mentor of mine often talked about how he surfed the Great Lakes in Sheboygan and that there was even a Great Lakes Surfing Society. In ten years of living life, I fell out of contact with my friend and lost touch of what it means to take time for yourself and pursue what makes your soul sing. I would love to win a Carve surfboard. I promise it would get wet (even if it is in Lake Michigan) and I hope that out on the water I will stand up and see my not only my friend’s reflection in the waves, but also myself.
I caught the surfing bug when I was 33 years old and my youngest child was just one year old. Knowing that I always dreamed of surfing, but just wouldn’t come out and say so, my husband surprised me with a board on Christmas Day that year. I was so excited that the first week in January, on a warm Charleston winter day, I borrowed his wetsuit and tried out my new board. Ever since then, I love to surf whenever I can. I always say that surfing is “good for my soul”. That applies even on days when the waves aren’t so stellar. My youngest is now 7 years old and spent the weekend with me at Folly Beach where I competed in the Wahine Women’s surf classic. She loved riding the waves in as I pushed her into them on my board. She says that she is my little surfer girl, my teenie wahine. I hope I can win the awesome carve surfboard so that she can start catching waves on her own and that she and I can surf together. And I bet she’ll let me and her dad and her older brothers take plenty of rides on it also. A family that surfs together…
I hope to win the surfboard because I give my all as mom of 2 , also I love the next hardest job on earth an ER nurse I would like to take the hardworking and caring fellow nurses and moms surfing because we all deserve a fun day at the beach. Honestly many of us deserve a surfboard, but I promise if I win it. It’ll bring more smiles to more people here in West Michigan than anywhere else I know, even if its just watching me fall off!
Well…..here’s the deal. I turned forty this year so I thought that I should try something new. Here’s the run down for the year. I was in my first dance recital in 29 years, took up mountain biking, started yoga, and competed in a relay triathlon. This year is fun! But this isn’t about me. I adopted a beautiful Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. He’s a wonderfully sweet but quite a timid, shy and insecure ( he didn’t have a good 8 months before I got him). He’s a water dog and how great would it be to see this beautiful orange and white dog on a blue surfboard. He’s is starting to come out of his shell and surfing is right up his alley.
PS: If Charlie doesn’t win the surfboard, he’d make a great dog for your catalogue!
As a long-time ocean lover trapped in land-locked Oklahoma, I feel that this surfboard will serve as a visual reminder that the ocean is out there, waiting patiently for me to return. It has been a dream of mine to learn to surf, and what better impetus to follow that dream than this perfectly dreamy board?
As a mom to 12 (yes, I said 12) children, mom-in-law to one and “nonny” to one, I feel that frankly, I deserve this. 😉
I’m checking in on the very last day for my chance to win…hope I’m not too late.
I have been fortunate to have seen the world, but have never had a chance to fulfill a life-long dream…to catch a wave and ride it in. After a decade in the military, being in some not so great places (such as Iraq), I actually have the opportunity to live near the beach. I would absolutely love to learn how to surf, but am a little afraid. I see others out on the waves and I’m just standing on the sidelines, waiting. One day I hope to have a surfboard of my own. I want to know what it feels like out there. Some day….
I would love to win this surfboard for my girlfriend in Maui. She has lived in Hawaii since the late 1980’s when she moved there from California and I moved from California to Wisconsin. We kept in touch for over 20 years before my family finally got the opportunity to visit her and her family. She has two kids who surf. She is selfless and cares for others both in her life and occupation ( works for the social services department and is a lactation specialist) helping women learn how to take better care of themselves and thier children.
What a beautiful day it is, we drive down to the beach not far from our home. My kids all grab their surfboards, boogie boards and beach gear. I grab the rest. Our friends are all enjoying the water, my other mom friends race into the water with the kids–they all have cute surfboards. I look around the beach and realize that I have become the lame mom on the beach. I am a great cheerleader, I am a great mom. I am not a great surfer, how can I be without a great board?
I don’t want to be the mom on the beach. I want to be the mom catching the waves with the kids. I want to be a kid this summer.
Experiential & Adventure Therapy are calling so winning would be a wellness dream come true! I can picture now being dressed from head to toe in sporty Title Nine clothes, driving in a top down convertible with warm breezy air blowing through my long straight hair. Next to me is that sweet, snazzy T9/Carve/Entropy surfboard standing up in my passenger’s front seat while we’re headed off to one glistening, welcoming sandy beach! As a licensed counselor, this surfboard is the symbolic recovery tool I would use in teaching diverse people a therapeutic mindfulness technique called “Urge Surfing.”
Help me inspire chiIdren to read! I am a first grade teacher in rural PA. My team is looking for a way to encourage children to read. We will be having a contest next year between classrooms to see which room reads the most books. The winners of the weekly contest will be able to keep the surfboard in their room and the children can “surf” while they read in the room. Help me build our future!! Give me the opportunity to let children who have never seen the ocean catch a wave and ride a surfboard in class!