We attended this year's United States Air Guitar Championships in Washington,D.C.to learn more about this unusual activity.

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We asked competitor Chuck Mung from Portland,Oregon why he thinks air guitar is so popular.

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He will now travel to Oulu,Finland for the Air Guitar World Championships starting August nineteenth.

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But first,we visit the national air guitar championship competition in Washington,D.C.

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Believe it or not, air guitar has become a competitive sport.

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They made up names to go with their air guitar characters.

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The United States Air Guitar Association organizes the event.

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"Air Guitar is the embodiment of the music that you hear, and so when you hear a rock song that really grabs you, just those steel hooks in your rib cage, you start miming it out.

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