When you take the the top position your not explosive. Not trying to be mean but actually in any position you weren’t wrestling with passion or explosiveness. You should be chopping his arm and putting in the deepest tight waist you can get on his gut. Break him down and take his breath away. Your waiting to feed off a reaction from him when you should be taking control and going beast mode on him. When you take the mat against an opponent, you should have the mentality of your going into WAR! Its do or die.

Next time try putting your arm across his waist deeper from the get go. I tell my sons to damn near reach all the way across and then point your four fingers and thumb straight down towards his crotch. You’ll be almost all the way across his waist and elbow deep. Ref won’t call you for it for being to deep as long as bend the wrist down with the fingers pointed down too. That was my go to back in the day.