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Recently I have come to respect the practice of paper cutting as a way to help train edge alignment. I first saw the paper cutting from haedong gumdo. The video I saw was Master Choi cutting a 6 foot piece of newspaper. The paper was hung on a clothesline and he was cutting the edge of the paper. It seemed easy enough watching him do it, but when I tried it was much tougher than cutting tatami or bottles. The trick is not only to cut the paper, but for the cut piece of paper to fall straight ...

Recently I have noticed that I am extremely weak on my open side when performing one handed cuts on my open side. This is a major problem when performing double cuts from the draw. Often times I will execute the first cut from the draw and leave the mat static, but when I follow up with the second cut I do not cut the severed piece. Instead I bat the piece away, sometimes not even cutting the piece. I can feel a lag from my kissaki to my elbow. I believe that one of the problems is my body ...