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Step 1
Get up to a fast speed. Ride in the switch stance, in which you ride with your feet switched from the usual way you ride. If you ride regular footed, you switch to a goofy-foot position and vice versa.
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Step 2
Roll toward the waxed curb, moving frontside. Frontside is where your body faces the curb or ramp. Look at the place on the curb where you want to come down in the grind.
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Step 3
Smack down into a switch ollie. The basic ollie is done by jumping into the air at the same time you smack the tail of your board on the pavement. The board bounces up into the air beneath your feet, which propels you and the board high into the air.
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Step 4
Shift the forward foot up towards the board's nose in preparation to keep the board up in a long manual (wheelie) position to go into a nose grind across the curb. Once you land in the grind, balance, riding the curb as long as you can.
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Step 5
Prepare to rotate into a 180 to get out of the grind. Turn your body backside while you also pull the board out of the grind and turn it backside as well. Backside is when your back faces the curb or ramp, which starts your 180. Complete the 180 rotation and land it with your feet securely on the board.
