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.
Back in the day, I was just a girl sunbathing on the beach, too intimidated to learn to surf. At the age of 42, I went to Mexico, picked up a board, walked into the water, and became a woman with a huge smile and a passion for riding waves. That trip brought me to my true self. In Mexico, I saw grace, compassion, and elegance at a slower pace. While volunteering for Peace Mexico, learning more about the people and place that opened my heart, and riding more waves, a sustainably-made board would be just the ticket!
I love the beach, I love the ocean, and I’ve wanted to learn how to surf for as long as I can remember. I grew up watching the surfers at the Jersey shore and listening to my father’s stories of surfing all up & down the East Coast, but I never had the opportunity to try it myself. Last year at 34 I finally tried surfing for the first time and it was hard (a lot harder than I had imagined being a life-long runner & swimmer), but I loved it! Even though I was only able to stand up for a few seconds each time, I loved every second! It was so exhilarating! And I do love a challenge. I’ve been wanting to give it another try, but haven’t had the chance…..too busy with work and life and all of the other things that get in the way of fun, but I think this beautiful board would give me a very good reason to make the time to try again very soon.
I walk around with a little secret; I have all my hair, am not wasting away, and have stage IV colon cancer. I am halfway between official diagnosis date (May 4) and 45th birthday (July 3). Various and sundry water activities have been pursued with enthusiasm on river & ocean during my years on this planet and I intend to continue them. The blue of both this board and of the ocean is like the light of the Medicine Buddha, which has been in my meditations since this latest adventure began. I calmly and peacefully continue. with love, kelly
At the age of 12 I read the book ‘Soul Surfer’ by Bethany Hamilton, a surfer who lost her arm in shark attack. I was inspired by her story, especially the fact that she returned back to competition just 3 weeks after her attack! Since reading this book I have had my own obsession about surfing. After hours of research and thinking about how I was going to pursue my surfing dream, I came across a website about surfing in the Great Lakes. Since I lived in just a couple miles from Lake Michigan, it was perfect! My grandpa found an old surfboard at a garage sale down in Florida and brought it up to me when he came to visit. Immediately, (that very day!) I tried surfing the lake. I have lots of family and friends that always want to come surfing with me in lake Michigan so I think it would be great to have a nice board to ride on with them! I’d be thrilled to win this board and would invite anyone to come surfing with me sometime!
What would a Midwest-city boomer who can’t swim want with a surfboard?
I remember the 70s, with new opportunities for women and the heady ability to make dreams happen.
I still can dream. Like my yoga sticky mat that drives internal enlightenment, the surfboard can become my flying carpet ride that carves traffic noise into the roar of the surf and makes houseplants into a lush tropical landscape. Transformation complete, I become the title nine model on the beach.
When friends come over, I share the fantasy as the surfboard converts into a patio tiki bar.
I’ve been playing in the sand too long and neeeeed to hit the waves! Most of my life has been spent watching guys surf and I’m tired of posing on the beach. It’s time to ‘carve’ my future and so what if I’m 42 and my sons disown me after I shred past them in Del Mar this summer, it’s time they see what I can do! And when I make the cover of Surfer magazine this summer I will mention your contribution.Thanks.
My mom, Kris Grimsley, just submitted her wish to win this surfboard. Please let my mom be able to win this contest. She really, really, really, really wants to win! She is a really good mom. She never really yells. I love her a lot. I want to be a surfer(and actress)too! It will be fun. I am eight
Love, Sidney Grimsley
Surfing is my life, my love, my passion. Two years ago I was in a car accident and my right arm was partially paralyzed from an awful neck injury. I had 3 separate surgeries because of the disc that went 3/4 of the way into my spinal cord. Needless to say, I was laid up and out of the water for long periods at a time. Thoughts of getting back in the water motivated me to recover as quickly as possible. Slipping on, carving, paddling on, sharing, and being in the ocean again was my dream. I have slowly recovered, but everytime I surf, the pain acts up again. Winning this 7′ beauty would help me get back in paddling shape and would enable me to smile once again!
I’ve been daydreaming a lot about an endless summer, one in which I can teach my boys to surf and camp and feel free. Late night beach bonfires and stargazing as a family. I took my 3 year old boogie boarding for the 1st time (on my childhood board) and it was one of the happiest days of my life to see him gliding into the beach with a huge smile, the same day my 4 month old sat in the ocean for the first time and splashed and smiled. I’ll be honest we have some hand me down and alley yard sale surfboards, but how sweet would it be to have a beautiful board all my own?
I am really a surfer chick diguised as a suburban housewife and mother of two children! I have Hawaiian stickers all over my minivan(I live in NC). I race my kids on my street surfer in our neighborhood. I buy surfing magazines in a town where nobody surfs. Whenever I visit my parents who live in Hawaii, I rent a nasty board and surf. I watch with envy at the sleek surfers guiding their OWN beautiful boards through the waves. My last three birthday wishes have been for a surfboard. Please let me be surfer chick!!! Thank you!!!