I do reverse my braid....that's a trick that I learned here. Heck you might have even been the one to post that a while back Skip.
I'm hard on my gear; especially rods and line. I love fishing thick mats of grass and weeds and pulling 4 or 5 pound bass out of the mess. I lose a lot of guide inserts and a lot of line (from all the abrasion) fishing that way. But sometimes that's what you have to do to get the big tournament winning bass.