Patent ID: 7578254

Claim:
A sports board comprising: a. a laminated composite foam core comprising a polyolefin foam base and a stiffening element layer, having a top surface, a bottom surface, and side edge surfaces; the sports board having a leading end; wherein the stiffening element comprises of a vertically compressible substantially polyolefin foam for providing flexibility and resiliency to the sports board, wherein the stiffening element has flexural strength higher than the low-density polyolefin foam base and provides mechanical stiffening to the sports board; and wherein the composite foam core is composed of two different foam materials bonded together in a plane generally parallel to the plane of the core; b. a top plastic layer laminated to the top surface and side edge surfaces of the composite foam core, comprised of an outer film and an inner film, wherein the outer film is a single layer graphic film with a graphic printed on an inner surface of the outer film and wherein the inner film is an adhesive resin layer, said outer film forms the outmost layer of the sports board, wherein the graphic appears through the outer film c. a bottom plastic layer laminated to the bottom surface of the composite foam core.