In the last issue of Bow International, we looked at the impacts of the pandemic on elite athletes, coaches and dealers. Another key aspect of the archery landscape is clubs, the primary driver of the sport, especially in the UK.
One of the luckier aspects of 'our thing', certainly compared to several other sports, and the leisure and entertainment sector, is that we can fundamentally practice our sport with social distancing in place. Obviously, many changes have to be made, to comply with general government guidelines, but it's clear that archery can work with the situation - especially outdoors. Needless to say, the situation is more complicated than that, because clubs need revenue to survive, and that only comes from archers.
It seems that many archers have not yet returned…