Patent ID: 7849653

Claim:
An anchoring panel for a sport wall system comprising: a panel and a means for stabilizing the panel; wherein the panel comprises: a front side facing an interior of the sport wall system; a back side; a top side and a bottom side, the front side and back side arranged therebetween; and a first and second end wall, the front side and back side arranged therebetween, wherein each of said first and second end walls comprise interlocking elements for interlocking with a first or second end of another panel in the sport wall system, said interlocking elements comprising at least a male knob extending towards the bottom side of the panel and configured to be insertable into an end wall recess of the another panel in the sport wall system, wherein the end wall recess is formed on the bottom surface of a block shaped cutout that terminates prior to reaching each of the front side and the top side of the another panel; wherein the means for stabilizing said anchoring panel is rigidly connected to, and extending at a right angle from a middle portion of the back side, wherein said rigid connection between the panel and means for stabilizing is unitarily formed by a molding manufacturing process, and wherein each means for stabilizing comprises a discrete hollow interior separate from the panel and an opening for providing access to the hollow interior such that when the means for stabilizing is filled with a stabilizing material via the opening, the stabilizing material is separated from the panel; and wherein when the anchoring panel and the another panel are connected to form the sport wall system, one of the end walls of the anchoring panel is in abutting contact with one of the end walls of the another panel.