Aikidi to hold demonstration

JAKARTA: The Indonesian Aikido Association (KBAI) will hold a one-day gathering on Tuesday, a release said on Saturday.

The gathering will take place at the STEKPI campus in South Jakarta where Indonesian aikido guru Ferdiansyah will lead a mass training session and embukai (demonstration).

Ferdianysah will be accompanied by Japanese counterparts Koichi Torium and Eiji Katsurada.

The self-defense training, which utilizes the principle of nonresistance to cause an opponent's own momentum to work against him, is scheduled to run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. while the embukai will be half an hour afterward and run until 7:30 p.m. --JP