Never, ever grind unwaxed curbs unless they're painted or something. And even if they are, always run your foot over them first to make sure you ain't gonna stack as soon as you try and grind it

Conquering fear is all in your head. Learn where the plates are on your shoes by, like, just jumping onto a curb without running up to it. When you've got that down, walk up to the curb and jump on... then jog up to it, then eventually run up to it

Brand new plates are slick as hell, but you're safe on curbs since they have some form of texture to them and that'll take the top layer of plastic off your plates

You should make a practice rail, they help a lot for balance and lock in on plates.

Just use candles. I won't go off on my usual spiel about skate wax, but since you're new to this, you don't wanna go spending an extra $5 for some wax if you end up not getting into Soap as much as you thought as you did

Usually if you're too afraid to even grind a curb, I would say there's no hope for you...

He never said he was too scared to grind a curb...

Not to start a gay argument, but i interpret that as too afraid to grind anything well or anything cool, but oh well.

hahahahaha... i like teh waxing to the fuckin max lol.. well i couldnt make it today but i will soon try soooo yeah and also how much wax do u put on?

you can just put a scaffold pole on your driveway and you wont really need to wax it much.... and it will teach you to keep your feet parrallel to the floor so you wont tilt your feet and scrape them on the ground (or tilt them and fall off rails when you get up to that height)

...do you not know what scaffolding is? Y'know... the stuff they put round buildings so that renovation and shit can be done?