What a 24 hours for our community. From the announcement at 22:30 last night that England would see a near-immediate limit to groups more than six in total meeting to a potential glimmer of a possible exit to social distancing and a ban on grappling. It’s far from black and white and is yet to...
We are the first in the martial arts industry to set up many initiatives during Covid, including this free extension to cover. We know for many clubs the prospects of renewing membership and – crucially – insurance, is a difficult judgement call at the moment. Whilst it now seem...
2020 has proved to be a year of near-absolute carnage for the UK martial arts sector. Coronavirus has pushed many clubs to the brink of failure – if not complete collapse. Focus in the early months of the pandemic was about trying to get clubs teaching outdoors and, when country by country gui...
Over the past month we have all been set adrift in a sea of vague regulatory changes and disappointing delays for the return of indoor martial arts. As we approach the 25th July, the date on which indoor martial arts can return in England, we decided a bit more clarity would be helpful to clubs and ...
For those within the martial arts industry who did the responsible thing and sat tight following June’s crushing extension to the continued closure of indoor sport and gyms, we finally appear to have our date! What’s Happened? ENGLAND On 9th July at 17:12 Oliver Dowden, Secretary ...
The changes to Government guidance is coming at us all thick-and-fast. It was only last week we were told martial arts would not be returning along with gyms and fitness classes. There was then a temporary glimmer of hope, only to be extinguished very recently again. We now have a revised piece of g...
We know that recent news on the delay to the re-opening of indoor martial arts has created further tension, divide and derision between organisations, associations and clubs from all styles and affiliations. Martial arts is already too fragmented and divided and now, more so than ever before, we wan...
On 23rd June the UK Government announced a further easing of lockdown measures in England, paving the way for a vast cut of the high street and economy to return. As an industry we were devastated to hear that gyms and indoor fitness classes would not be permitted to re-open until ‘atleast mid...
Whats The Issue? This week, the Government announced plans that effectively opened all but a few parts of the English economy following lockdown commencing in March. To our tremendous disappointment, indoor sport and recreation, as well as gyms and indoor fitness classes were told they could no...
What Just Happened? In England On Tuesday 23rd July the collective UK martial arts community awaited news from the Boris Johnson on lockdown measures being eased. With bated breath, we heard how hairdressers, cinemas, museums, galleries, restaurants, shops and pubs joined the long list of other busi...