Ok, up until recently I've always used a pull cut on bowls and always used shear scraping for my finish cuts. So now I've been trying to learn the push cut and have tried just about every position I can imagine and cannot seem to get a good cut, sometimes it starts out ok and after about and inch or two of travel it takes a lot of force to get it to cut or starts bouncing erratically off the rest.
Things that I know.
1.ride bevel but do not push bevel into the wood.
2. Have flute pointing roughly 45degrees toward the cut.
3. I have my handle parallel to the ground and back to accommodate for my bevel angle.
Lastly I try to keep my tools sharp on the wolverine system and currently grind my bowl gouges with 45 degree grind.
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks

Ps. I've been cutting white oak and hickory wood lately.