Air Guitar Hero

USAG Presser

All the major media attended the USAG press conference. TV, Radio, internet, and of course AspenSpin.com

Guitarsonist

Vegas champ, Guitarsonist strutted his pink tard and took "all kinds of liberties" with the Cuervo Black girlz.

9 1/2 toes

Bettie B. Goode (second from right) won the Brooklyn contest but cut her little piggie quite severely. She got snapped by a medal folding chair, and the toe was eventually amputated. Airsol ( from Minnie, 2nd from left) showed acrobatic skilz to finish 2nd in the USA for 2008. Chuck Mung (left) dominated in Seattle, but was off his game in SF.

Air Bear

USAG mascot Air Bear was funny at first, but he must have had a bad trip. By the time the final round started, he was so wasted, that security had to remove him from the premises. I'm sure his costume came in handy on the streets of the Tenderloin. At left, that's famous TMZ photographer, Kid Paparazzi.

Children of the Corn

Maybe you remember Joseph of Air-imathia from Children of the Corn. In winning the Des Moines regional, he concussed himself with a beer bottle, but kept on rocking. His Peter Pan outfit won him raves from the VIP section.

Rip Darko

Rip Darko the Houston winner mugged on the red carpet with the Cuervo Black girlz.

HardCore Henry

Hardcore Henry, an air rookie from Phoenix was just happy to make the finals. He was "gettin' with" as many Cuervo Black girlz as possible. His star turn in the hit movie, SuperBad, put him on the entertainment map.

Shreddy Mercury

The Arnold Horschak of Air Guitar, Shreddy Mercury won the challenging NYC regional. He looks kind of dangerous, don't you think?

Ride the Wave

Defending champ WILLIAM OCEAN won it all in 2007. Ocean brought his whole crew out from NYC so they could "ride the wave". His performance earned him another trip to the finals but could not repeat. Ocean is fully sponsored by Sparks energy drink. His signature move is the "front flip to a Sparks can crush". Just in case Ocean's air career ever falters, he's the #1ranked ski-ball roller in the world.

Area 9

Who knew that the VIP section would be filled with celebs. Nancy Conrad (front), is Bjorn Turoque's Mom. As if that's not huge enough, her late husband was Astronaut Pete Conrad---the third man on the moon. She brought in a group from NASA to witness Bjorn's gig as emcee. Their names are being witheld for security's sake.

Awesome

SF home town favorite Awesome raged the pre-lims. He and emcee Bjorn Turoque, (USAG Hall-of Famer ) waited for his scores.

Boogie Boarding

Ocean surfed the crowd, but couldn't overcome eventual winner Hot Lixx Hulahan.

No PODIUM for Ocean

Even with USA shaved into his chest and real surf-board OCEAN finished fourth.

Bronze Medal

Awesome shaved a lightning bolt into his chest hair and broke out the fake blood---but it was only good for #3.

Air Champion

Broken thumb and all, Hot Lixx dominated. Bjorn, a perennial runner-up has become the Ryan Secrest of Air Guitar. He "bro-manced" Hot LIxx as the winning scores came down from the Judges. Both will be in Oulu,Finland in two weeks at the World Championships, Hot Lixx as the USA's sole representative and Bjorn as the celebrity host. Google it.