'I think I got in with Twitch at the right time,' says Hunt. As he was playing, he became aware of the streaming platform, Twitch, which had not yet seen the boom of mainstream popularity it has now. 'I was bored on the couch, and I decided I wanted to become really good at one video game, Super Mario Bros.
After a bad snowboarding accident left him severely injured and in months of recovery, Hunt turned to another passion to focus on. His love of the slopes took him to college in Colorado, and then to Lake Tahoe, where he continued to spend as much time as possible riding and working as a snowboarding instructor.
As an avid snowboarder growing up in the US state of Michigan, David Hunt idolised athletes like John Jackson and dreamed of one day emulating his snowboarding achievements.
