Maybe in a year or two?
I cannot wield it so well, of course. I can barely do some of the jibengong, though I manage somehow. A weight that would have been both challenging and reasonable is maybe 4.5kg. This is a 9kg sword. Why? Because you only order something like this once in a lifetime, so I wanted it to remain challenging for the next 30 years. The down side is that it takes a lot of time getting used to. The next heaviest weapon I have is one of my bigger large spears, which is 4kg tops. Currently I can barely sustain a 5 minute training regime with it, with much awkwardness. For comparison, my training miao dao, weighing about 1.5kg, I can wield 2 hours without any problem. The difference is quite huge. Perhaps in a few months I will make a comparison video of a regular sized miao dao vs. this new one.