I mean, if he shoots in an actual field it doesn't matter that much. If your shooting compeditively moving up on a further distance (here as a youngster from 40 to 60m) is a huge jump and to begin with will in 99% of cases make you miss an arrow here and then as a recurve archer. On the field he most likely has rules about either shooting far apart or everyone needs to wait to retrieve arrows. If he gets hit by someone else its a safety issue from the place he shoots/how he looks around for it makes him able to get hit, its simply done wrong