If that's all you took from what I wrote then I really don't know what to say . . . Nobody is disputing what factors create distance, the discussion is how those forces (at high, if not extreme levels) cause components to perform
and react with other components.
It's not the knot . . .
Are you saying you do this with spinning tackle? I understand doing it with conventionals but how do you generate
any energy when you have the drag loose?
In the simplest terms, if you are not reeling the heavier line onto the reel then it is not a "shock" (or casting) leader. Calling it a "shock leader" is just wrong. The comments here only reflect the mistake you are making in the name. Feel free to call it a bite leader, chafe leader, landing leader or "Fort" leader . . . Just don't call it a shock leader.
The rod doesn't
have to be rung with lowriders; lowriders are pretty much for braid running / braid casting leader set-ups (although I have used this rod in casting tournaments (.28/.75 mono) for the 100gm and 125gm and done 625+ with it). I think guide size is secondary in eliminating guide loops; the most important factor is distance from the reel to the first (collector) guide. The sizes of the guides is next and that is partly determined by the first factor and then by the reel itself (foot angle and how aggressively is dispenses line).
Agian, the line coming off the reel is like a waveform but the amplitude, the height of the "waves" in the line is ever decreasing the further from the reel it gets because the sinker is pulling on the line, straightening it.
It makes no sense to have guides bigger than the the line coils are
at the point the guide is located. A 50mm guide 40 inches from the reel is just an expensive, useless adornment if, at 40 inches from the reel the line coils only measure 35mm. Put a 30mm guide 40mm from the reel and you are actually doing something to control the line (and help rod recovery by lessening tip weighting).
Even with no guides the line coming off a spinner
will become straight at some point; collector placement and size is important to
help this process without causing a problem.
Absitively Posolutely!!!
Mono shockleaders do create their own problems. I equate a mono shocker as trying to throw a slinky through a basketball hoop without it catching the ring.
Believing a heavy mono shocker corkscrewing itself through the guides towing a wispy braid running line behind it is
NOT going to cause problems is like believing in unicorns and mermaids.
On my distance set-ups I use 20lb (1507) and 30lb (1569) Sufix braid as my running line and 65lb and 80 lb braid for casting leaders. The main strand of my rig is of course constructed of 80lb to 130lb mono and is usually 3 to 5 feet long. That is plenty of line to handle a fish from the beach; for wading a bar I would make it a bit longer.
IMNSHO a mono shocker on spinners with braid running line is without any redeeming performance qualities -- but that's a discussion for another thread.