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 am 29 years old, have been Active Duty in the U.S. Army for the past 7 years, and served in Afghanistan in 2004. I am an incredibly active person and love all kinds of sports, but three years ago, I began having problems with my back, mainly due to wear and tear from the Army–carrying heavy rucksacks and jumping out of planes. The doctors discovered that I had two herniated discs. As a result, I’ve been sidelined from many of the activities that I love–soccer, softball, running, martial arts–and ones that I’d love to try–surfing and rowing! This past January, I had a spinal fusion over three levels of vertebrae. After almost a six month recovery, I am ready to start physical therapy. Once I regain the rest of my strength, I plan on learning how to surf with my friends down here! Miraculously, right now I am remotely stationed at a small outpost on the coast of Texas (Army bases are usually inland in the middle of nowhere, so boy did I get lucky)! I am so encouraged by my recovery and am looking forward to finally living my life again! Regardless of who wins the contest, here’s to all the ladies out there who are pushing through obstacles to achieve their goals! There are so many inspiring comments on this site! You go girls!
From 1999 to 2001 I lived and worked in the Republic of Palau. While there, one of my Palauan friends, Saiyuri, taught me to surf in the warm clear water. Since that time I’ve been surfing constantly; I live near the ocean and spent as much time a I can in the water. The balance that surfing brings to my life has been more than cathartic. I believe that if everyone was able to experience something like I feel after a good day of surf, our world would be much healthier and happier. My friend Saiyuri is not rich, and surfboards are difficult to come by in Palau. If given this board, I would either ship it to Saiyuri or (better yet) deliver it myself!
“I Surf Therefore I am” by peter kreeft a boston college professor, explains love in the form of the ocean. how a surfer would rather live without sex, as long as we can surf. Peter argues Surfing is the equal to religion. Because for some(like me) religion is something to look to, when theres nothing left. Its a sense of hope and faith for the future. If i can surf, i still have life left in me. If the ocean is still surf-able. theres still some hope for the future of the plant, there is still a possiblity for a come back. A surf board is hope, because currently iv lost all hope in buying a board this summer. Every dime i have goes to medical bills, medications and gas to get to hospitals and back.
As a kid, I grew up as a surf bum in Florida. Now, I live in Missoula, Montana where I raise two kids, 6 and 9. I have never regretted my location, but long to share surfing with my kids. A year ago, “Brennans Wave” was constructed- a kayakers/Surfers wave in the Clark Fork River. Now I can not only surf on my lunch break but pass along my most treasured sport to my kids. While I will admit that I still miss the salty air and watching seagulls, its pretty cool to watch an osprey swoop down and snatch a trout.
If I win this surfboard, I can assure you that we will surf on it often in one of the most beautiful- if unlikely- places on earth: Montana.
I would love to win the surfboard as a reminder of surviving a very big transition in my life. After being terminated from my job – I was looking for an outlet. I ran into a friend at dinner who mentioned going to a surf camp. It sounded perfect. It was so serene, so quiet and peaceful gliding across the water. It was a place I never thought I would be.
Since I grew up in North Dakota, surfing was never a goal of mine. But, as soon as I was up, riding a wave, I wondered why I had waited so long to learn. I can now understand how surfing can be so addicting.
The release from reality, the awesome dance with Mother Nature was why I was in Costa Rica. I got knocked around a good bit. My hip flexor was still sore, my left shoulder was pretty tender, my toes were bleeding from scraping them on the board leaving no evidence I ever had a pedicure. And my ears and sinuses were plugged. But none of that mattered. I had come a long way from beginner’s luck to struggling to being able to catch and ride a wave.
Learning to surf is an awesome experience. Doing something new — physically — at my age is exhilarating.
However, the best part for me was taking a break from reality, meeting fantastic women filled with fun and intelligent conversation and visiting a place I had only read about in magazines.
Plus, I have the pictures to prove that “mommy can surf.,” My boys think that’s pretty radical.
Everyone has a wonderful story of why they should win the surfboard. Why I should win this board over everybody else – who’s to say? Times are tough and many are strugling. I will be starting Physician Assistant school in the fall focusing on providing medical care for medically underserved areas. In the mean time I am jobless and had to sell my surfboard to get a little cash. Crashing on the couch of my boyfriends parent’s place in Huntington Beach, Ca it is hard not to have a board to join in with my friends. In the mean time I have started volunteering at the local horse barn showing the rescue horses a little TLC. To whom ever wins the board, if it is not I, enjoy, treat it well and smile every time you are in the water. Life cannot get much better. A bad day surfing is better than a great day at work!!
I am a PE teacher for the Bremerton, WA School District. I teach in a district that has 70% of it’s students on free or reduced lunch. I knew our families could not afford athletic clubs. So, I started a free weekly fitness class open to families and the community.
Many of my regulars are homeless, alcoholics, ex heroine and ex meth addicts. The participants tell me they look forward to the class because they feel; accepted, more self-esteem, and hope.
Their favorite game is beach ball volleyball and they deserve a sweet surf deco bench to sit on between matches.
16—A boogie board for Sweet 16
24—Florida beaches traded for Idaho mountains
34—Baby makes 3; a move to the Northeast and frigid seas
40—Home calls, and back to warmer water
42—Kids learn best by example: A 7’ Entropy for mother and daughter
I’m dead and my daughter, Kaya and her grand-daughter, Ana are waxing my board. My board, vintage, priceless, their board. Ana fixed the ding, but Kaya struggled – she fought for the ding. She wanted a stamp of mom’s graduation. They both won, most wouldn’t notice, but Kaya could find it in the dark. My board is nameless.
It’s the board I won from you in 2009 for being a mom guiding my 4 daughters and son through life.
An hour ago i saw this add in your cataloge and im going to enter as many times as possible. Because who knows if you actualy read these? or if you just randomly select one? i need a damn surf board. Bottom line my life is just starting at 18, the ocean is currently my therapist. I have spinal cancer and a desire to live to be able to save sea turtles and teach my little sister how to surf (shes 6)