When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon hit Australian television screens in February 1990, I, along with every other kid I knew, went berserk with martial arts madness. There was even a special assembly called at my school to ban homemade nunchucks in the playground.
The other thing I became obsessed with in 1990, like a lot of other kids, was skateboarding. For this reason, a nightly news segment lingered in my brain for over 30 years; it combined my
