You should definately check to make sure that all of the connections have been made properly:

Sensor harness is fully seated into the ESC... none of the sockets are comming out of the plastic housing, etc.

All three motor phase wires are properly soldered to the motor
Blue to A
Yellow to B
Orange to C

If it doesn't work like that, give another known-to-work motor a try.

At that point if it is still giving you the "push start" problem, I would say the ESC has a problem with one of the power phases.

I would check out our website to see the upgrade options we have available for the Super Sport ESC.

www.teamnovak.com