When I started longboarding last summer, cracks, bumps and little twigs were a real problem for me. My Dinghy came with 60 mm wheels, but I replaced them with 72 mm Plow Kings and suddenly I became unstoppable!
Climbing up curbs is still a problem. I can get one foot on the ground and push to pass small ones, but I wouldn't mind learning one or two tricks to climb them with style. The method described by Lotfi in his video looks nice, but I need to practice my manuals first.
For passing smaller curbs, just approaching them diagonally, de-weighting combined with reasonable speed will do. Else, look into boneless, no comply, no comply 180, tiger claws, footplants, and endless variations of grab tricks, you can really get creative here. All of these are fun to learn (with boneless maybe the most easy to start with) and look cool, you should be able to find plenty of tutorials on youtube.
All of the above is pretty fancy, but doesn't work too well at higher speed, and since my ollies are rather crappy to put it mildly, I usually resort to lifting the nose and doing just a tiny hop, no popping, no sliding, like this. Same for major cracks and similar annoyances.
I like the punk attitude of this dude, who pops his board over the ledge by confidently slamming his back wheels into the curb while moving his weight, though I gonna have to admit that this didn't end too well for me, your mileage might vary ..
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