Patent ID: 7491139

Claim:
A device for use as a defensive game dummy for practicing basketball or volleyball, comprising: a collapsible body, collapsible arms and a collapsible head which may be positioned as a defensive dummy; said collapsible body being comprised of a plurality of sections, each section above a lower section being substantially slidably collapsible into the lower section; means on an upper portion of each lower section of said body and on a lower portion of each upper section of said body to secure each upper section of said body when raised; mounting means on a bottom of a lowest section of said body for releasably securing it to a surface; said upper sections of said body may be raised and secured for play and collapsed substantially completely into the lowest section of said body for transport and/or storage; said upper and lower sections of said body being round or ellipsoidal in cross section; a head section of a size smaller than said upper and lower body sections mountable to an uppermost section of said body and collapsible into said uppermost section of said body, representing a head of a dummy player; said uppermost section being provided with collapsible rotatable arms mounted thereto, said arms being comprised of collapsible sections wherein said arms may be collapsed and slid into said uppermost section of said body, said collapsible section of said arms may be extended and secured in an extended position by detent mechanisms, said arms being rotatable to various positions to function as a game dummy; said head being collapsible into said uppermost section of said body and said arms being collapsible into said uppermost section of said body wherein the upper sections of the body may be collapsed into lowermost section of the body with the entire device being collapsed into the height of a single section; said head section being provided with detent mechanisms for retaining said head in an extended position or in a collapsed condition; and said head being provided with a handle for carrying said device.