I will be traveling to China next week and will be visiting Shanghai, Wenzhou, and Nanjing. When I travel I often take the opportunity to visit archery shops and ranges just to get a feel on how other people conduct their business and culturally how archery is handled. If you've got any experience in these areas please let me know either through this thread or a PM.
Chequamegon Guy
Anyone Familiar with Archery in China?
Greetings,
It will be a fantastic opportunity to visit these places. I lived in Shanghai for 3years for work. I had my archery equipment with me and shot at archery indoor range only. I did not have the time to travel out of Shanghai to shoot at outdoor range.
I remembered there were a few of us from USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, France frequently visited this archery range by HongQiao area in Shanghai.
Since China has restriction for weaponry control. I would suggest you calling China embassy in Chicago and find out if you can bring archery equipment into China.
Good visit.
It will be a fantastic opportunity to visit these places. I lived in Shanghai for 3years for work. I had my archery equipment with me and shot at archery indoor range only. I did not have the time to travel out of Shanghai to shoot at outdoor range.
I remembered there were a few of us from USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, France frequently visited this archery range by HongQiao area in Shanghai.
Since China has restriction for weaponry control. I would suggest you calling China embassy in Chicago and find out if you can bring archery equipment into China.
Good visit.
I'm living in Hong Kong, that's 30min. from China.
However HK is a free country(special city or what ever you call it).
Archery is an important sport in China, so is any Olympic sport, they takes Olympics very seriously.
If you have talent, it's a full time job, but you won't become rich.
Recreation archery is very small scale, but if you ask nicely they will allow you to shoot in there range, but off course you need to pay.
Archery shops are as good as none existence in China, because the very high import tax.
Almost all equipment are bought from here HK, the tax free country.
But we don't have warehouse archery shops either, most items are back-order, but pretty quick anyway.
Traditional archery is as good as dead in China.
There is only 1 or 2 person that still makes traditional Chinese bows, and that person don't even know how to shoot an arrow.
Thankfully we have here in HK a traditional archery specialist Stephen Selby, he is not Chinese mind you.
You can find everything in his website: atarn.org
He is the only person that specialized in Chinese traditional archery, I followed a lesson from him, very nice teacher.
And if you bring archery equipment in to China, you better have a good reason for that.
Not that a bow is restricted item, just because the douane staffs don't know much about it, so they don't want to risk problems with his supervisor.
Contacting the embassy beforehand is a good idea, if you ran in to problems, just let them talk to the embassy staff.
jx
However HK is a free country(special city or what ever you call it).
Archery is an important sport in China, so is any Olympic sport, they takes Olympics very seriously.
If you have talent, it's a full time job, but you won't become rich.
Recreation archery is very small scale, but if you ask nicely they will allow you to shoot in there range, but off course you need to pay.
Archery shops are as good as none existence in China, because the very high import tax.
Almost all equipment are bought from here HK, the tax free country.
But we don't have warehouse archery shops either, most items are back-order, but pretty quick anyway.
Traditional archery is as good as dead in China.
There is only 1 or 2 person that still makes traditional Chinese bows, and that person don't even know how to shoot an arrow.
Thankfully we have here in HK a traditional archery specialist Stephen Selby, he is not Chinese mind you.
You can find everything in his website: atarn.org
He is the only person that specialized in Chinese traditional archery, I followed a lesson from him, very nice teacher.
And if you bring archery equipment in to China, you better have a good reason for that.
Not that a bow is restricted item, just because the douane staffs don't know much about it, so they don't want to risk problems with his supervisor.
Contacting the embassy beforehand is a good idea, if you ran in to problems, just let them talk to the embassy staff.
jx
In Hangzhou, in a new mall building there is an indoor archery range on sub level 1. Across the street from the new Paradise walk where I go to Will's Gym to swim.
This trip, departing next Monday, I'm planning to bring my 45# takedown and a dozen new aluminum arrows with field points. The range only has one lefty bow and it is only a 20# draw. And they do not have bow matched arrows either.
I'll do some checking to be sure I can bring it over. They do classify the bow as a sporting equipment.
This trip, departing next Monday, I'm planning to bring my 45# takedown and a dozen new aluminum arrows with field points. The range only has one lefty bow and it is only a 20# draw. And they do not have bow matched arrows either.
I'll do some checking to be sure I can bring it over. They do classify the bow as a sporting equipment.
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