Silver birch development

[CA Bolter]

I transferred this birch into a training pot 2 years ago and have been only cutting back and cut and grow to bring in most of the leggy branches. Looking for some styling advise. This is my first birch and not sure if I can pull off the weeping style to make it look like a natural birch on a tree this size. Any advice is welcome!

 

[Pixar]

I would try and get some movement into the middle trunk

 

[Paradox]

Looks like the middle trunk is 1.5 inches.
You're not bending that

In the second picture, the trunk that is most forward looks like the nicest movement to me

 

[Pixar]

You could try and put cuts in the trunk and bend

 

[hampton]

Only having experience with birch as landscape trees I wouldn’t think the bark would respond well to wedge cutting. It’s fairly thin and relatively delicate. That said I’d love to get a hold of a birch, beautiful trees

 

[Pixar]

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[BobbyLane]

Don't try bending it, you'll snap it. What I would do though, in spring as the buds extend I would chop at either of these two points with red lines, angled cuts, since it looks like there is dormant nodes there, ive highlighted what looks like dormant nodes in green, but you'll know better since you have the tree in front of you. another time to do this could be mid summer after youve fed it well and spring growth has hardened off.
yes the middle trunk is straight but so are the others, so theres a theme there. google clump bonsai, there'll be many with straight trunks. at moment your middle trunk is just too long and out of proportion to the rest of the tree.