If you're not comfortable cutting and bending your plant, don't yet. Get to know the plant through one grow first and focus all your care on getting its environment and feeding down because those are hard enough for first-time growers to learn without making it more complicated than that.
Also, have fans going to keep the plant swaying, but avoid pointing them directly at it. We've seen quite a few mystery "leaves are turning brown for no reason" issues wind up being wind burn - which isn't always easy to diagnose from pictures posted online.