If you give it a full fwd and then a full rev, the motor from full fwd will go to dead stop, to go to rev you have to repeat the rev input. That said we still have to program the ESC as I forgot place the programming card on the order. I'm not much into electrics and electronics, that's my brother's job...I only understand gears, metal and grease!
Through the whole test the esc and motor did not heat up or anything...