Throwing Star Capitalism
The 1980's were a time of many marvels; shoulder-pads that could double as helipads, "business in the front, party in the back" Mullet hairstyles, and the (still-today) unequaled consumer coolness of the Sony Walkman. Forgotten by some (but exploited by me in my teens) the 80's also re-birthed the Ninja! To be sure, there were certainly a lot of really crappy Ninja movies (try watching " American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt " for ultimate b-movie Ninja nonsense) but the genre eventually parodied itself by spawning The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - go figure! The Ninja craze in New Zealand likely caused a quadrupling of martial art training academies and almost over night Kiwi boys were dropping their plastic guns and picking up swords, throwing shuriken, and generally beating the shit out of each other using movie-inspired roundhouse kicks. I must admit I got absorbed by some of the craze. I had started doing Judo before the Ninja stuff kicked off, but whe...
