With more and more people buckling to the selfie-stick trend, a self-defense sports school in Moscow has come up with a unique combat class where students learn to use the stick as a weapon.
“In many countries, assaults on tourists have become a frequent occurrence, and the only instrument of self-defense that travellers always carry on themselves is a selfie-stick,” the M-PROFI sports center said in an online statement. Clicking photographs on an expensive smartphone attached to the end of a stick can easily mark a person out as a tourist, making them a vulnerable target for robberies. In such cases, it only makes sense to wield the tool for self-protection.
The self defense classes are supported by a group known as the ‘Association of Safe Selfies’. “It’s time for the selfie-stick to be used for a purpose other than to take photographs,” the group’s president said, adding that self-defense methods using the tool have actually become a worldwide trend called ‘mpd-fight’, short for monopod-fight.
Becoming a proficient mpd fighter only takes five training sessions, and according to an M-POFI spokesperson, the self(ie)-defense art can be very efficient in fighting off practitioners of boxers, wrestling and mixed martial arts.
Unfortunately, mpd-fighters might not be able to use their skills in public places where selfie sticks are banned, like Disney parks and football stadiums in the United States.
How could you possibly get into trouble in a football stadium? Just because you've had a few beers and so have the 100-odd people surrounding you who are wearing the opposing team's colours is no reason to...
"Hey fellas, can we take a picture together? Got my selfie stick right here... Hey...give that back right now or I'll..."
See ya, eh!
Bob
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