PAAS what is it and why?

A group of like-minded individuals have been gathering since about 2005 to talk about all aspects of primitive technology including Archery and Atlatls. In 2007 the PAAS begun as a nebulous idea - so nebuluous that it didn't have name or a home base.

We did have some ideas about what we wanted to do however. We wanted to be a good place for people in the UK to come as a resource for learning about and practising archery and atlatl throwing. In North America and Mainland Europe there is a thriving community of 'primitives'. PAAS has been and will be forging closer ties with groups around the world.

The good news is that by the end of 2007 we had a name and home was where we hung our arrows/darts.

Some of us are members of the Society for the Promotion of Traditional Archery and that took care of the archery part. SPTA has always had a class for primitive bows which we could shoot in and a lobbying group made up of some of the PAAS members managed to get a primitive class passed in the 2006 AGM of the National Field Archery Society. That didn't help with the atlatls,

Rather than set up a whole new society (we weren't really big enough) we set up a sister organistion to the SPTA. And that is where we are today...