Ivanow will attempt to take the record from Joel Strasser, who managed to fit 312 straws in his beard in a 2018 attempt.
"I won first place at the World Beard and Moustache Championship and I was totally floored by that and then I just happened to sort of decide one day I wanted to see what else could be done here. Could I set a world record?" Ivanow told Newshub.
Ivanow said his first idea was to work in his archery hobby by attempting a record for most arrows in a beard, but he switched the idea to straws after discovering it was more difficult to create a new record than to break an existing record.
"I decided rather than trying to do a new one I'd just do an existing one because it's a bit of a process to make up a whole new category but if it's just an existing category it's just some existing paperwork and you wait a couple of months for the process so I figured yeah why not, I'll try that one," he said.
