Front Office Football Central - Air Guitarists Championship

While I certainly can sympathize with air guitarists, I think some of the attitudes is rather amusing...

from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,89709,00.html

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“I’ve been practicing my whole life,” said David Jung (aka "C-Diddy"), from Brooklyn, N.Y., backstage before the East Coast Championship. “This is where people begin in rock. It all starts with air.”

Actually, I thought all starts with a real guitar.

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Hundreds of spectators came out to the Pussycat Lounge in Manhattan for the East Coast show earlier this month.

Pussycat Lounge??? Did they have poles?

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To make it to the finals, song choice is crucial. One contestant who chose pop tart Avril Lavigne's (search) "Sk8ter Boi" was booed off stage,

File this under "what was he/she thinking???"

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“This is not a contest, it’s a demonstration of my air supremacy,” C-Diddy said backstage.

He's cocky but not funny.

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Donning a Samurai headscarf and red kimono — under which a Hello Kitty breastplate smiled — he leapt on stage and whipped up the crowd with his self-described “Asian fury” in a performance he called an homage to “Eddie Van Halen, Mozart and a little bit of Jimi.”

Is that like releasing the f'n fury?

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While contestants like Jung put effort into their look — teasing up hair into a Poison-esque poof, or bringing props like an empty guitar case — one former World Air Guitar Championship contestant said purists rule.

What? Poison-esque poof is not a purist???

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If he wins nationals in Los Angeles, C-Diddy will again be performing his signature move, which he called “the arpeggio hammer-sweep: a combination of rapid finger movements going up and down my arm like playing scales," in hopes of taking the world title.

Uh-huh.

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But Denning said taking air too seriously goes against the spirit of the competition.

“Other contestants might tell you that you need a certain flair and physical dexterity to compete, but that's all bollocks,” he said. “The key is a supreme sense of just how absurd life can get and drinking all the contents of the mini-bar 20 minutes before you go on stage.”

In other word, just Rock On!

Check the runner up caption...

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Toby 'The Tobanator' from New Zealand takes second place in the 2002 Air Guitar World Championship.

Is he related to the Shermanator?