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 ...
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