01
The court
Tripp came up in his city as an all star basketball player. Discipline came first: the structure of practice, the standard of repetition, the cost of giving less than everything.
The studio
FROM ALL STAR
TO MASTER
BARBER.
Fourteen years in the chair. Two California shops. One specialty most barbers never take on.
02
The chair
Fourteen years ago he picked up clippers. The first cuts paid in dollars. The next ones paid in trust. The slow build nobody saw.
03
The shop
October 2016. The first location. Two chairs, one standard.
04
The method
Hair units, restoration, and the technical obsession that turned into a specialty. The category most barbers never take on.
05
The standard
Today: two shops, over a thousand barbers trained, an international following, and a standard built one cut, one student and one chair at a time.