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.
My name is Lisa and my husband Jamie is a surf instructor. I am a veterinarian from Vermont and I have always, secretly, been a little scared of the ocean. That is until Jamie started teaching blind kids from the Carroll Center for the Blind how to surf. Imagine catching your first wave in complete darkness. It’s amazing to watch these boys and girls catch and ride waves all with the help of some amazing volunteers. They are doing the Carroll Center for the Blind day at the beach again this year and I would love to present one of these inspirational girls with a board. I can imagine it hanging on their wall and the statement that would make about their willingness to conquer the world!
I’m a professor of anthropology at Seattle University studying women’s surfing. I study the origins of women in the sport, which are the myths of Tahiti and Hawaii. I love unearthing how women’s surfing has been central in Polynesia. This story is written in the archaeological and ethnographic record. Women’s surfing in Polynesia tells of surfing goddesses, queens, and princesses. My goal is to continue this research and educate people about this history and presence in the sport.
It would be an honor to ride a board designed/shaped by women. The sustainable materials would demonstrate my environmental commitment.
-Liz
18, a senior in high school counting down the 7 days I have left until I enter the world. A year ago in Rye Nh, I learned to surf as my Senior project/thesis. Up on the first wave and have fallen head over heels for the ocean, up at 5 am everyday of the summer since(only I don’t have my own board I bum one off friends) I live at the base of a Nh mountain where I snowboard in the winter, the only girl on the local shred team and love every moment of it. (not trying to play the sympathy card) but feburary,I was diagnosed with spinal fractures, as a result of spinal cancer. I can only describe it as heartbreak.Knowing this mite be my last summer of adventure, for the rest of my life, is a total buzz kill. I’m awaiting a spinal fusion surgery to keep me walking. I want to become an Environmental scientist,study abroad in Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and save green sea turtles. Cancer sucks,but the ocean is awesome. Its a beautiful thing to lay on a surf board of your own,name it and paddle though the rough to the calm together. I cant promise the board and I would make it to study abroad and save turtles, but the two of us would enjoy this summer and wouldn’t go a healthy day with out seeing the ocean.
I am a biomechanist studying lateral balance in “seasoned” women (being 47, myself). Lateral balance is a major indicator of falls for the elderly; yet few activities allow for lateral balance training. Having previously studied trekking poles and balance while hiking, I am examining skiing as a potential lateral balance training mechanism (snow and/or ergometer). What would be more natural moving from snow skiing to summer surfing? My only caveat for studying an activity is that I participate in it too; I haven’t surfed since I was a teen, but what better board to relearn a skill on, than a surf board from Title Nine- the clothing company that keeps us moving and looking good.
I need this surfboard because I’m a red-hot, 47-year-old mama of two little boys, 8 and 5, who would dig seeing me standing up and paddling on Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. When I’m not taking them to the Kerrville Folk Festival or playing two-square on the driveway, I am writing a book about children surviving, and thriving, with HIV infection in Botswana. My sons are proud of me. I think it’s important for boys to see their mothers working and living life to its fullest. Thank you for considering my entry.
I’m a 46-year old mom of 2 under 6 years old and I come from a long line of strong, confident women. This very morning, one of my younger cousins, a 37-year old mom of 5, died of brain cancer.
For the first time in my life, I’ve realized that time is passing and we can never recapture the special moments that are behind us. We can only respond to what is ahead of us and life is meant to be lived to it’s fullest!
So if I win this surfboard, AGE BE DAMNED! I’ll buy that wetsuit (I live in Seattle), and hit the beach, for me, for my cousin, my daughter, my mother, my sister and all the women (and men) in my life!
My Mom is sixty-four years old, going on sixty-five. She is the best Mom in the world. She lives in Romania. I live in the USA. When I visited my Mom last year, she revealed her secret dream to me. She would like to go on a Hawaiian vacation and learn to surf. I would like to turn her dream into reality. If selected as the winner of the surfboard, I would give it to my Mom as a present for her sixty-fifth birthday, and take her on a Hawaiian vacation where we would both learn how to surf.
18, a senior in high school counting down the 7 days I have left until I enter the world. A year ago in Rye Nh, I learned to surf as my Senior project/thesis. Up on the first wave and have fallen head over heels for the ocean, up at 5 am everyday of the summer since(only I don’t have my own board I bum one off friends) I live at the base of a Nh mountain where I snowboard in the winter, the only girl on the local shred team and love every moment of it. (not trying to play the sympathy card) but feburary,I was diagnosed with spinal fractures, as a result of spinal cancer. I can only describe it as heartbreak.Knowing this mite be my last summer of adventure, for the rest of my life, is a total buzz kill. I’m awaiting a spinal fusion surgery to keep me walking. I want to become an Environmental scientist,study abroad in Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and save green sea turtles. Cancer sucks,but the ocean is awesome. Its a beautiful thing to lay on a surf board of your own,name it and paddle though the rough to the calm together. I cant promise the board and I would make it to study abroad and save turtles, but the two of us would enjoy this summer and wouldn’t go a healthy day with out seeing the ocean.
I am a surfer chick disguised as a suburban housewife and mother of two! I have Hawaiian stickers all over my minivan. I race my kids with my street surfer in our neighborhood. I buy surfing magazines in a town where nobody surfs(Charlotte,NC). When I visit my parents who live in Hawaii, I rent a nasty surfboard and surf. I watch with enzy at the other surfers who have their OWN beautiful boards. My last three birthday wishes have been for a surfboard. Please let me be a surfer chick!!!! Thank you!!!!
How would I use this beautiful surfboard? Let me tell you. My daughter is almost 2 and I have spent most of her life trying to figure out how to decorate her room. I want to embue her a sense of adventure, love of nature and a great sense of easy going athletic style, and to be a girlie-girl when she needs to be. One day I was thinking of the vacations I’d like to take with her, my son and my husband, and I put Hawaii first on my list. So what would I do with this surf board? I’d hang it in her Hawaiian themed room, right above her closet, next to the grass hut I made out of grass skirts, and near the palm tree and Hibiscus I muraled on her walls. And although we live in the Midwest, I’d take her to Hawaii and take lessons with her and take her surfing one day…..I promise. Until then, the surfbaord in her room will be her reminder of all that I hope for her.