Abstract: A practicing device for use in developing and maintaining an accurate tennis serve. The device includes a carrier defining a downwardly open apex space, a support for supporting the carrier with the apex space disposed at the top of the path of a tennis ball properly tossed by the user in a simulated serving action, a flexible element underlying the apex base and arranged to be urged upwardly into the apex space by a tennis ball tossed upwardly to the apex space, and a signal device for providing a signal in the event the tennis ball is tossed incorrectly either upwardly through the apex space or laterally adjacent the apex space. The signal device may provide an audible signal. The support may be arranged for selectively supporting the practicing device either on the ground or on the elevated mounting. The flexible element further serves as an indicator for indicating that the tennis ball was properly tossed in the simulated serving action.

Abstract: A shaving implement defining a shaving head and a handle having an end portion carrying the shaving head for manipulation of the implement in a normal shaving razor manner. The handle further defines at least one chamber for holding dispensable shaving-associated, or grooming, material, such as shaving cream, aftershave lotion, pre-shave lotion deodorant, etc. Structure is provided for retaining the shaving-associated material removably within the handle of the implement. The shaving-associated material may be retained directly in a chamber defined by the handle or may be retained in a container removably received within the handle. A removable handle portion defining a second chamber for holding such shaving-associated material may further serve as a closure for a chamber in a first portion of the handle arranged to receive a different shaving-associated material.