Local Man Sets Sights On Beard Championships
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Regardless of what happens in Dayton, Pa., this weekend, things are guaranteed to get pretty hairy.
The city is the site of the Second Annual National Beard And Moustache Championships and also home to beard growing hopeful, Joshua Rupp. He and around 200 other facially-follicked fellows will compete in five categories: Moustache; Partial Beards (such as sideburns, van dykes, goatees and soul patches); Full Beard, Groomed; Full Beard, Natural; and the ever-popular Freestyle category in which anything goes.
Event organizer Phil Olsen, who heads Beard Team USA, a loose-knit organization of bearders from all over the country, said the competition is meant to be inclusive, which is why he expects hairy-faced humans from Germany, New Zealand and Canada to also compete for the $5,000 worth of cash and prizes being offered at the event.
Rupp first became America’s biggest advocate of what he calls the sport of “bearding” back in 2014 when he attended a World Beard Championship in Yspad, Sweden, and saw that the U.S. was “sorely underrepresented.”
This flew in the face of everything Rupp thought was great about America, and so he set forth to turn America into a “bearding” power. By 2015, the young father of 3 began competing in tournaments across the United States.
Last year was the first year of competing at the national tournament, and Rupp's quest to make America a facial hair powerhouse got a big boost when the Independent Film Channel aired “Whisker Wars,” a seven-part documentary series about his efforts.
All along he’s been a big advocate of beards, but also wants potential contestants to know that it’s not exactly a cake walk.
“There’s more to bearding than meets the eye,” he said. “It takes a lot of skill to get the beard ready for competition. But, like with anything, people with good genes do have a better chance. Some people pick their parents well and can grow a good beard, just like basketball players who are tall have an advantage.”
But it does take work, according to Rupp, “I do a lot of grooming,” he said. “I eat healthy, and shampoo and condition it daily. I believe if you have a healthy diet, you’ll have healthy hair. My facial hair is a little oily, but it’s holding up well.”
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