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I got to watch him roll for over an hour and found it very educating in itself. I think that as his English improves he'll be able to communicate more details, but I when he is rolling or even just demonstrating a move, I noticed that he'll do little movements that he didn't explain that really help flesh out the technique once you'e spotted them.

Here's what I noticed:

While he is on the back, he is constantly bringing up his top hook (since he rolls them to one side) and dragging his heel down their body to try to catch their arm. He'll just keep doing this over and over again and eventually trap their arm.

As a friend had told me, from the back he only really cares about keeping the hook on the side of the choking arm. His other hook will be doing different things like stepping on their hip, trying to hook the arm (as above), stepping on the ground to adjust his hips, joining the other hook to triangle behind one leg, etc. In particular, I noticed he was taking this hook out and putting it behind their knee and stretching their leg out and up, to keep them from being able to turn.

I noticed that he was trying to sweep people over his head so they'd post their arms, then take the reverse armbars by hugging the elbows to his shoulder. He wasn't aggressively finishing these with anyone that I saw, but he got a couple. I think I saw him let people try to turn their arms out of these so he could throw his leg up into an omoplata.

During no-gi, he was very aggressive with guillotines whenever he was against a wrestler or someone who would come in with their head low. He didn't seem to be really trying to finish most of them at first, but I saw him start to really lay into them on one particularly aggressive guy.

He got a lot of omoplatas, from guard but also from the top, particularly when people tried to escape mount or side control with underhooks. I didn't see him finish a lot of them the traditional way, but instead would make/let them roll and come up into a position where he could straightened the arm into his armpit for an armbar of sorts.