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Competitive air guitar is not a sport for the faint of heart: Taryn Kapronica, a.k.a. Bettie B. Goode rocked her invisible guitar so hard she bent her toe off. Like, literally. Kapronica was competing in the U.S. Air Guitar Championships Brooklyn Regional on July 9th when her awesome stage moves caused one of her toes to bend backwards, later calling for an amputation. Kapronica still plans to compete in the national U.S. Air Guitar Championships in August. [Gothamist] More »
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None of us knew anything about the cult "sport" of air guitar before last night. "I wonder if it's anything like figure skating?" asked Anna when she learned that I had signed myself up to cover the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, held last night at New York City's Fillmore Irving Plaza, after having discovered that [gasp!] two of this year's fifteen finalists were women! Women?! Playing air guitar?! Duuuuuuuuude! Turns out, air guitar is a lot like figure skating (same scoring range, lots of eye make-up, glittery costumes) But it's also an unexpected area of peace, love, and overwhelming sisterhood. Who knew, right? (Seriously, the whole thing was started by a bunch of Norwegians as a means of promoting world peace.) There were 17 contestants from 17 different American cities, and two of them, we learned, were women. Awesome! But what is it like to be a woman in a male-dominated realm that started off as the hobby of Black Sabbath loving, basement-bound teen boys and turned into a faux power chord competition? We talked to the competition's two female finalists, "McNallica" and "Psycho Airapist", about what it's like to be a girl in a guitar-geek's world. More »
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