Next year marks the 50th anniversary of VISION STREET WEAR. Danny has been traveling frequently between the US and China this year, searching for rare treasures for VISION. Among his 962 kilograms of cargo, he found a special issue of THRASHER Magazine. This issue features the first known Chinese skater to ever have a submission published in the magazine!
明年是 VISION STREET WEAR 50 周年，Danny 今年也频繁往返美国为 VISION 搜寻到了很多宝贝。这次在他的 962 公斤货物里，就有一本特别的 THRASHER 滑板杂志，上面有目前已知第一位投稿登上杂志的中国滑手！
This is the December 1985 issue of THRASHER. The cover skater is the legendary Dave Hackett, who is currently a member of the Skateboarding Hall of Fame Executive Committee and has hosted many of the Hall of Fame ceremonies.
这本就是 THRASHER 1985 年 12 月刊，封面滑手则是大名鼎鼎的 Dave Hackett，目前是滑板名人堂执行委员会成员之一，也主持了很多届滑板名人堂。
It is in this very issue, within the reader submission column "Photograffiti," that a mysterious Chinese skater named Curtis appeared.
也就是这一期杂志里的投稿栏目《Photograffiti》里，出现了一位神秘中国滑手 Curtis。
During that era in China, it was absolutely not easy to own a skateboard, manage to take a photograph, and submit it to THRASHER Magazine in San Francisco.
在那个年代的中国，要能有一块滑板，还能拍到照片，并投稿去旧金山的 THRASHER 杂志，并不是一件简单的事。
Let's SEARCH FOR ANIMAL CURTIS!
Special thanks to Jocko Weyland. We met in Beijing back in 2005 during Danny Way's jump over the Great Wall, and then reunited several times in Beijing and LA, but we still keep in touch.
Early September this year, he sent me an email and mentioned he had found a Chinese skater in a 1989 issue of Thrasher. I then forwarded the message to my friend Danny, who works for Vision Street Wear China and was in the U.S. at the time. Danny went to the Lookback Library and found this issue. Now, we are digging into the past to explore the history of Chinese skateboarding a little bit more.
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