Introduction: Hapkido Club Beckum e.V.

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Slowly the German championship is approaching and in the course of this we want to introduce some participating clubs and other sports groups here. We want to start with the Hapkido Club Beckum.

The Hapkido Club Beckum e.V. was founded in 1967 under the initiative of Karl-Heinz Kickuth and is therefore Germany’s oldest Hapkido club. But also in the last years Beckum presents itself well: within the NWHV the club is very active and participates with athletes as well as with supervisors and instructors in many recreational events, tournaments and seminars of the NWHV.

In Beckum, Jun-Tong-Won Hapkido is trained and the Hapkido Club Beckum e.V. is also part of the Hanminjok Hapkido Association. Beckum is also involved there and regularly participates in international courses and tournaments, most recently in the 2022 World Championships in Busan.

We are happy to welcome Beckum not only as a participant in the championship but also as a supporter in Dortmund.

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Foreword by the patron

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Happy New Year! With the new year, the championship is also getting closer. Now we would like to introduce our patron, the State Secretary for Sports and Volunteerism of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. We are very happy to have Andrea Milz as a supporter of our tournament. Here is her foreword:

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear sports friends,
I am pleased that the German Hapkido Championship 2023 will take place in Dortmund and I thank the organizers very much for the event preparation and organization. The German Hapkido Championship 2023 is a good example of the valuable contribution made by our volunteers and active people in sports organizations.
In various competitions, sports enthusiasts of different ages can demonstrate their sporting skills. This not only helps improve techniques but is also a lot of fun for everyone involved. The common interests connect people regardless of their origin far beyond the sporting competitions and national borders. I very much welcome the fact that, in addition to the sporting activities and achievements, the organizers are particularly concerned with promoting cohesion and a sense of community. I am therefore happy to support the German Hapkido Championship 2023 by taking over the patronage.
For further organization, I wish all supporters good success and I wish all athletes exciting and fair competitions in the context of the German Hapkido Championship 2023.


Andrea Milz
State Secretary for Sport and Volunteerism of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Foreword by the DHB

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Next we want to thank the organizer: the German Hapkido Federation. The DHB is the union of the Hapkido state associations and thus the largest German Hapkido body. We are also happy to establish closer contacts across Germany by hosting the German championship, which will provide us with many opportunities in the future. Here is the greeting of the 1st chairman, Volker Gößling:

Dear Mrs. Milz, dear guests, dear martial arts friends,

it is an honor for the traditional and biggest Hapkido Federation in Germany to host the 10th Open German Championship in Hapkido in Dortmund.

I would like to welcome all participants, all guests, organizers and helpers who will make the competition weekend a great sporting and cultural experience.

The aim of the DHB e.V. is to make the different styles of the Korean martial art Hapkido known throughout Germany. Hapkido, the way of harmonious power, includes kicks, punches, leverage, throwing, and pressure point techniques as well as the handling of various traditional Asian weapons. At the same time, our art also emphasizes breathing and meditation. Through cooperation with other martial arts, the DHB e.V. would like to bring tradition and competition into harmony with each other.  For this reason, the championship is open to competitors from Germany and abroad, regardless of which martial art they practice. After hosting German Championships in various cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt, we are now pleased to be guests in the sports-minded and cosmopolitan city of Dortmund.

Grandmaster Volker Goessling

Foreword by the NWHV

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The North Rhine-Westphalian Hapkido Association, short NWHV, is the largest Hapkido regional association of the German Hapkido Federation. The NWHV offers various youth events, courses and tournaments throughout the year, in which the Taekwondo Team Kocer e.V. participates gladly and frequently. Therefore, we are looking forward to the support of the NWHV at the German championship and want to leave the floor at this point to Michael Richter, the 1st chairman of the NWHV:

There it is again. The German championship in Hapkido. For some a long time ago, for us a look ahead. The German Championship in NRW, in a city that has already written sports history. Soccer is the first thing you usually associate with this city. It is a city that is home to students from a wide variety of disciplines. A city with a huge range of sports, including martial arts. Dortmund is home to the sports club Teakwondo Kocer with its young Hapkido division.

Hapkido, multifaceted Korean self-defense, combines martial arts and combat sports.

A great variety of self-defense awaits us on the mat. Presented in different performance levels. Children, youth, adults and seniors. The high art of self-defense is demonstrated in different interpretations. Worth seeing are the fights in light contact. Here, in addition to good physical condition and endurance, applied variety is also required. In form classes, movements are brought together as imaginary combat. With the breaking tests against freely held boards, the sportsmen have to concentrate their concentration of energy with speed on a single point.

The sporting event is only one part. Besides the mat, the athletes, family, friends and guests will find a great program. Great conversations and networking can be fostered/built over culinary delights. The young team of the Hapkido department has collected many ideas and wants to surprise us. It will be a rounded up championship if we all cultivate and live the Olympic thought, “To be there is everything”. We from the NWHV would like to join this and add “Fairplay on the mat and twice as much fun next to it” a participation is always a profit.

We wish all athletes healthy successful preparation.

See you in Dortmund

Michael Richter

First chairman NWHV