For you, they just may!
But until they start handing out adult diapers, what do you suggest they do differently?
What should a teacher offer to their students who are dedicated? Come over to Sifu's house and train there?
Srsly bro.
The "weight pulley" will need a lot of space to set it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3yB...ature=youtu.be
Or you could just do dumbbell rows which takes way less space, although it doesn't have that cool ancient Chinese training feel:
http://strongworkout.files.wordpress...735cc4fee2.jpg
It's the "quick pull and quick release - shaking" that can be developed by using the weight pulley. TCMA training equipments are not always used to develop muscle and strength. Some are used to develop a certain "function".
The pulling is one part of the training. The releasing is the other part of the training. With long rope, if you release it fast, you will create a wave form on your rope (this is why the rope has to be long). When the weight finally dropped, it will pull yor body forward unexpectedly. It's like someone pull you and shake you in wrestling. If you are used to that kind of body shaking, you will develop better natural resistence to against it. Without training partner, I have not found any other modern training equipment that can help me to develop this kind of "natural resistence" yet.
At 1.32, 4.38 of the following clip, the body shaking is used. It's one of the most important skill to use in jacket wrestling when your opponent is bigger and heavy than you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtPNDbBm-7E
The following modern pulley may be able to help you to develop the pulling. It cannot help you to develop the release because the rope is too short. That's why a large open back yard will be needed.
http://imageshack.us/a/img33/7906/weightpulley5.jpg
I've always liked resistance bands for this type of training.
You don't need a partner, you can use almost any immovable object.
If that rope pulley training were more effective than squats, deadlifts, pullups, etc., then professional fighters would be training that way.
It's more authentically Chinese, and it might be fun to pretend you're in a kung fu movie, but it's not really giving you any skills that a guy who can deadlift 300 pounds for reps won't have.
It might make you better at some technique that doesn't work on resisting opponents, however.
The guy in the other vid wasn't doing battle ropes.
I've read mixed reviews about how effective they are, anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...unmfB8k#t=172s
Same basic principle. A downward pulling movement with an element of resistance against vibration/shock. The ropes allow for more of a cardio element than you might see with the weighted pulley/rope.