Patent ID: 7381173

Claim:
A training apparatus consisting of a direction reversal means ( 1 ), suspendable from a fixed support and having two sides, a rope ( 2 ) which is passed via the suspended direction reversal means ( 1 ), a first part ( 2 ′) of the rope being arranged to hang down from one side of the direction reversal means and having a lower end, a handle loop ( 2 ″) being provided at the lower end of the first part ( 2 ′) of the rope, and a second part ( 2 ′″) of the rope being arranged to hang down from the other side of the direction reversal means, wherein the apparatus has a rope locking device ( 4 ) with two opposite sides, one of said sides having a rope receiving groove and a sideway opening through which the second part of the rope can sideways enter the rope receiving groove to be releasably locked therein and can be released by being pulled out sideways therefrom, said rope receiving groove having a set of inclined keyway wedging elements ( 4 ″) to releasably engage the second part ( 2 ′″) of the rope when it is in the rope receiving groove and disengage and release the second part ( 2 ′″) of the rope when it is pulled sideways and outwardly from said rope-receiving groove, wherein an opposite side of said locking device ( 4 ) is attached to the first part ( 2 ′) of the rope between the direction reversal means and the handle loop, whereby the locking device ( 4 ) is cooperable with the second part ( 2 ′″) of the rope to provide said releasable engagement between the locking device ( 4 ) and the second part ( 2 ′″) of the rope; wherein said rope locking device is separate and spaced from said direction reversal means and can be translated along said rope while said direction reversal means remains fixed.