They call him the Magic Man.
The roots of Hunter Armstrong’s moniker date all the way back to when, as an 8-year-old kid, he watched his friend Peyton Burris pull off what he now calls “the cheesiest card trick.” At the time, it rocked his world. Nowadays, he can’t believe he fell for it. But while riding to a swim meet at a YMCA, it was cool enough for him to want to give it a go himself.
“I told him I'm going to go home, I'm going to learn how you did that and I'm going to do it better than you,” Armstrong said last week.