I ordered two of these and got them a few days ago, and I just got a chance to use them with my brothers today but....... we did four light tricks (to test them out) and on the fifth one snapped right of the handle. so, we thought maybe it was a bad one so we struck the other one on an oak bo staff and BAM! of it went. it looked like it was glued on, and the weights in the handle seem to make it weaker, and for any one that has used a wooden bokken the weight is all off balance, it's all in the handle so when you strike you cant use the weight of the sword. all in all I guess for the price I expected to much. karate depot is great and they have many awesome weapons but this was a let down, they should check to see if they can make it stronger. but has I said, twenty dollars isn't much.