Introduction

Ballerup Taekwondo Club was found Sep­tem­ber 2nd in 1974 as the first taekwondo club on Zealand. The club's Korean name is Hwa-Rang, which means flowering youth. The club is associated with grand master Shin Boo Young (9 dan), Germany.

The club is a non-profit association run by volunteers. Among them some fiery souls who are motivated toward the vision of making the best taekwondo club in Denmark.

There is training every day of the week with classes for kids, youngsters and adults on all levels. The training takes place in the club's own facilities where also floor ball and fitness training is possible.

The training in all-round so that the students learn all aspects within taekwondo and martial arts in general. Therefore the students will meet e.g. self-defense techniques that has its origin in maybe aikido and jiu-jitsu.

The club participates in national and inter­national tournaments with both beginner students and top athletes. Many students, of whom the youngest were 12 years old, have won the Danish cham­pionship. National team members from the club have won the Euro­pean Championship many times as well as Korean Open and many other international cham­pion­ships. Also 2nd place at US Open and 4th place at the World Championship. The club is known for its high level standard, which is one of the reasons for the many gold medals.

Ballerup dominated the sparring tour­na­ments until the mid 1980's. When the technical disci­pli­nes became popular in the late 1990's Ballerup became one of the leading clubs at technical tournaments in both figure disciplines (individual, synchron and freestyle), one-step discipline, and break disciplines. Today the objective is to be among the best within both sparring and the technical disciplines.

Over the years the club has arranged many national and international tournaments with success leaving its stamp on the develop­ment of especially technical cham­pion­ships.