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Cool video. It’s always nice to see how other people play and to hear them explain everything. Is this you playing, @Andjoy ?
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No, that’s not me.
Check YouTube for the guys name.
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Notice at ~3:52 on the video if you watch on youtube at 1/4 speed. He says the motion is coming from his wrist, but, especially at slowed-down speed, you will see that there is a tiny bit of wrist movement but it is almost all coming from his foream (i.e. motion at his elbow). It seems that the slight wrist motion there is is a kind of side effect of being a bit relaxed and moving the forearm with so much vigor - it is not sufficient to make the pick cross the string (and is dramatically different than when he picks at a slower speed). I’ve noticed it is very common for guitarists, even very good ones, to have a mental model of their own picking motion that is not an accurate representation of what they are actually doing. A much more extreme example was a Guthrie Govan youtube video where he similarly said the motion was coming from his wrist but it was 100% from his forearm - his wrist was absolutely rigidly locked, so much more extreme than in the video you posted. This guy’s tapping the bridge (presumably for orientation) and then instantly lifting from it is something he does that he is describing accurately, and an interesting quirk of his!
Yeah, you are right.
Sonwhen he plays that A arpeggio at speed the rhythmic accuracy is gone and he also hits unwanted strings.
I disagree, his tremolo looks mostly wrist based to me though I can see a little bit of the elbow movement that you are referring to 
This would be an example of elbow motion and it looks quite different:
Have you watched ~3:52 on the video at 1/4 speed? His forearm is not moving to let him access different strings, but rather to move the pick up and down. When you do wrist movement, your forearm does not move except to change strings (and his does not move at slower speed, only when he switches to elbow motion at faster speed - just like the Guthrie Govan example I mentioned). The guy whose video you posted makes his wrist slightly more rigid at the fast tempos, but otherwise it is the same forearm motion. No problem if you disagree and see it differently, we can agree to disagree 
That’s a really fast sounding tremolo. Almost like hot on your heels.
Slow approach:
From his eBook:
eBook:
He talks more about picking here below the video:
https://jazzimproviser.com/2024/12/20/right-hand-guitar-technique/
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