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Wide Ichikawa the Rock and Super IQ play air guitar2. Close up pan same3. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Tatsunya \"Ichikawa the Rock\" Ichikawa\" I am very happy to be Japanese champion and this is the first time I have...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eOulu - September 5, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide Ichikawa the Rock and Super IQ play air guitar\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up pan same\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Tatsunya \"Ichikawa the Rock\" Ichikawa\u003cbr/\u003e\" I am very happy to be Japanese champion and this is the first time I have been to the championships. In fact this is my first time abroad so I'm very happy and I'm going to be this year's champion\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide pan contestants improvise on stage\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid US champion Andrew \"William Ocean\" Litz improvising\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid improvisation teacher\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up pan contestants clapping\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway photographer\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid contestants doing \"bunny ears\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid Japanese contestants doing \"bunny ears\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Kanagawa IQ \"Super IQ\"\u003cbr/\u003e\" It is very, very important for us, for the Japanese Air Guitar Association. That's why I'm here. Last year I was also chosen to take part in the finals and this year I am once again in the finals and I will be champion\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide exterior contest venue\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid same\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid Thomas Fankhauser\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid organisers\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up organisers \u003cbr/\u003e18. Set up Thomas Fankhauser being interviewed\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (German) Thomas Fankhauser, Switzerland\u003cbr/\u003e\" I feel a little bit nervous. This is my first time here but I think that during this air guitar training camp I will get rid of this nervousness a little bit. \"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide contestants leave venue\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid Japanese contestants leave\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide river\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid river\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide contestants walk across bridge\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid Japanese and Spanish contestants talking\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide contestants\u003cbr/\u003e27. Mid photographer\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide contestants warming up on outdoor stage\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide Japanese contestants warming up\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide teacher\u003cbr/\u003e31. Wide Japanese contestant air strums\u003cbr/\u003e32. SOUNDBITE: (Finnish) Teemu Tuohimaa, choreographer\u003cbr/\u003e\" For many years people from different countries come here and they see the beauty of this place and of course they see the craziness of the Finnish people and the crazy ideas we have. For example this air guitar. For me I think it's one of the craziest ideas we can come up with\"\u003cbr/\u003e33. Wide Air Guitar World Champion 2006 Ochi \"Dainoji\" Yosuke shows stomach \u003cbr/\u003e34. Close up stomach\u003cbr/\u003e35. Mid pan to Ochi \"Dainoji\" Yosuke posing\u003cbr/\u003e36. Wide contestants on outdoor stage\u003cbr/\u003e37. Mid pan Thomas Fankhauser and other contestant play air guitar\u003cbr/\u003e38. Wide Thomas doing his routine\u003cbr/\u003e39. Cutaway teacher\u003cbr/\u003e40. Wide contestants doing exercises\u003cbr/\u003e41. Cutaway media \u003cbr/\u003e42. Wide contestants jumping and falling \u003cbr/\u003e43. Mid Japanese contestants singing\u003cbr/\u003eFinalists are preparing for the the 2007 'Air Guitar World Championship' on September 7. \u003cbr/\u003eAir guitarists from across the world are settling into the quiet Finnish town of Oulu which transforms into the become the centre of the air guitar universe for three days each year. \u003cbr/\u003eThis year contestants from 10 countries battling it out for the title \"King of Air\".\u003cbr/\u003eTatsunya \"Ichikawa the Rock\" Ichikawa and Kanagawa IQ \"Super IQ\" take air guitar very seriously. \u003cbr/\u003eTatsunya is this year's Japanese champion and he intends to win the 12th world championship here in Finland as well. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2006 Japanese comedian Ochi Yosuke won the title of Air Guitar World Champion. \u003cbr/\u003eFor Andrew \"William Ocean\" Litz, rural Finland is a far cry from New York city.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 27-year old New Yorker was crowned United States  Air Guitar champion last month before a sold-out crowd at Irving Plaza in New York. \u003cbr/\u003eFinalist Kanagawa IQ \"Super IQ\" is also confident of retaining the prize for Japan. \u003cbr/\u003eThomas Fankhauser,  of Switzerland says he is a little nervous, but he hopes the high altitude 'air guitar training camp' will increase his confidence. \u003cbr/\u003eThe town of Oulu in Northern Finland may be small but for air guitar fans this the home of the world air guitar championships.\u003cbr/\u003eDay one is for loosening up those digits and getting the contestants into the right frame of mind for their performances on Friday (September 7). \u003cbr/\u003eSeventeen contestants from around the world will be battling it out at this year's championships. \u003cbr/\u003eThis year's \"airheads\" come from Australia, the US, Finland, Switzerland, Japan, Germany and France. \u003cbr/\u003eThey are best of the best but even these hardened performers get a little nervous.\u003cbr/\u003eThey get the chance to work off some of those nerves among the roaring rapids of Koiteli, just outside Oulu.\u003cbr/\u003eThere, under the watchful eye of choreographer Teemu Tuohimaa, they are guided through the bare bones of air guitaring, including history, choreogoraphy and, somewhat bizarrely, instrument maintenance.\u003cbr/\u003eTuohimaa says that people worldwide love the crazy ideas that the Finns have, like the air guitar championship.  \u003cbr/\u003eOn hand to share his knowledge with the group is last year's champion, Ochi \"Dainoji\" Yosuke. \u003cbr/\u003eFor Yosuke, the fame has obviously gone to his stomach.\u003cbr/\u003eBy the end of the session the fingers were loose and contestants were starting to show some of their outrageous moves.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe ability to play the guitar is not necessary here. 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