para tapers respond best to smooth short arm movements combined with haul, load like a bow and blast out line.
I've mentioned before my Fisher Sterling combo makes an 8'10" 5/6wt progressive rod with four pieces - the top two pieces with a different handle make a 6'9" 6-wt para, and either combo will cast the same distance. (though the longer progressive rod is a magic wand for fly placement)
The guy who has probably spent more time than anyone else playing with para tapers in both cane glass is my buddy Rob Sherill, TXTrout on this forum. Rob is a student of Don West and Paul Young.
I recommend contacting him for ideas, and he probably has a half-dozen glass rods for sale.
not glass, but here is a 7'10" 5-wt para streamer rocket built by another buddy, Floyd Burkett, a taper he named The Guadalupe
I will add fishing with buddies one day I began with this rod in a famous streamer hole - did well, and followed them upriver where we found a dry fly hatch in riffle water. This was the wrong rod to have, While I landed a fish there, most strikes were either missed or broken off. Made up for it next time with my super-progressive dry fly rod, when I took the tally.
My go-to salt rod is a Japanese para taper. Sage RPLX and TCR are both para graphite - they don't call them that.
The South Bend 469 combo rod is a 7' 7-wt para, and many people have rebuilt these as fly only and use them in the salt.