I am born and raised on Maui grew up riding horses herding cattle branding cattle and roping wild cattle on the slopes of mount haleakala I also did a lot of rodeo growing up which my favorite events were the double mugging and poowaiu which are both Hawaii original events but I have also done bull riding calf roping dally team and broncs I also had my own farm was in ffa in high school and many other life experiences that people today will never experience