DailyNews.com - The winner of the U.S. Air Guitar regional competition in Brooklyn rocked so hard during a daredevil performance that doctors had to amputate a toe she broke during the gig.  Taryn Kapronica - who goes by the stage name Bettie B. Goode - slammed into a metal chair 15 feet above a confused Williamsburg audience just seconds into her July 9 performance of Scorpion's "Rock You Like a Hurricane."  "My foot got caught in the chair leg, and as I fell over the chair, my toe was dislocated and basically all the tissue was totally ripped off," explained Kapronica, 27. "By the time I hit the ground and looked down, my toe was pretty much gone and just hanging from a thread."  And suddenly, the Long Island City, Queens, resident who works in a local event space became a guitar hero.  As a crowd of more than 200 audience members watched in horror, mouths agape and eyes wide open, Kapronica - clad in leopard-print rocker gear - kept right on rockin'.  She performed for 50 seconds longer while blood dripped across the stage.  "I could feel the blood trickle down my foot and between my toes, but I refused to look down at it," said Kapronica.  "I just kept on air guitaring."  Fellow competitor Tom Corsillo - who performs under the nom de rock Mitt Umlaut - said Kapronica's gutsy performance is already the stuff of legend. "In those 60 seconds, she solidified her place in air guitar lore, and really became a hero to a lot of people," Corsillo said.

See this is the beauty of sports.  Whether it be Jon Lester pitching a no hitter after battling cancer, Tiger Woods winning the US Open with a torn ACL or Derek Redmond pulling a hamstring in the Olympics and having his father came out of the stands to help him finish, you just never know when true greatness will emerge.   And nothing proves this point more than Bettie B Goode’s performance at the Air Guitar Regionals.     This is one of those transcendent events that nobody in attendance will soon forget.    Sure anybody can play air guitar when healthy.  But how many people would have“kept on air guitaring” after a horrific metal chair accident left them with 9 toes, blood gushing everywhere and 60 seconds still left in the song?  The answer is nobody except Bettie B. Goode who will now rightfully live on in Air Guitar folklore forever.    Somewhere Ronnie Lott is smiling.