And as a spectator of the sport, you just get to see a bunch of freaks on stage in spandex and hairspray and glitter doing their thing. “But the language in which we all do speak is that of music. And you’re singing karaoke until early hours in the morning and you’re eating pizza in the gutter and you’re doing all these amazing things with all these people, none of which speak the same language. During that whole week you’re meeting people from all over the world and you get naked with strangers immediately and jump into a sauna and then jump into the river. We spend about a week together, but the show itself is one night of that week. We all get together in Finland for this competition. “Air guitarists are some of the finest human beings I’ve met on Earth. On the connection between air guitar and peace Those are the things that you want to take into consideration when looking for something technical.” So if you’re trying to emulate the actual sounds that a there-guitar makes, you’re going to play those high notes further down on the neck or the low notes further up on the neck. “High notes on a guitar are played very low on the neck of the guitar itself. That’s where I would hold my pick and my left hand would be the fingers on the fretboard that go up and down the neck of the guitar. “I’m right-handed, so I would I play my air guitar the same way in which I play the guitar. On the technical skill required and what judges look for (Courtesy of the World Air Guitar Championships) Justin “Nordic Thunder” Howard plays the air guitar. You score a performer based upon the same scale that professional ice skaters use, which is a 4.0 to 6.0.” Technical merit: Does it look like you’re playing the notes that you’re hearing throughout the sound system? Stage presence: How does one fill the stage and feed in and out of the audience with the energy being exchanged? And last but not least, is ‘airness.’ Airness is the je ne sais quoi of this sport and the things in which the judges are looking for to score. “There’s some criteria in which they’re judged upon. And what makes it a competition, which then falls in line with being a sport, is that competitors compete against one another to become the best in the world at doing nothing. But first and foremost, it is a competition. I want to be the best in the world at that.’” “In fact, that’s why I wanted to start being an air guitarist to begin with, because I saw that this thing existed and I’m like, ‘That is the stupidest thing ever. It is as silly and absurd as it sounds,” Howard says. His favorite song to air jam to is “ War Pigs” by Black Sabbath. Howard plays the real guitar, or “there-guitar,” but asserts he’s better at air guitar. Justin “Nordic Thunder” Howard was crowned the 2012 air guitar world champion and will judge this year’s competition. Good vibrations are in the air as preparations begin for the Air Guitar World Championships this Friday in Finland.
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