MISS AMERICA CONTESTANTS GUNG-HO OVER KUNG FU

MISS AMERICA CONTESTANTS GUNG-HO OVER KUNG FU

NORCROSS, Ga. (Wireless Flash) -- If Jackie Chan wants to find new stunt actors for his next film, he should check out tomorrow's Miss America Pageant. It seems many of this year's contestants are getting in shape by doing martial arts such as Tae-Bo, kung fu and karate. According to Michael Fifrick, a fitness trainer who trains beauty pageant contestants, the bang-up beauty trend is because today's pageant contestants are just as concerned with being fit as with being skinny. This year, Fifrick has trained Miss Georgia and Miss Vermont and he claims some contestants are getting in shape by boxing -- although they're not duking it out against each other. He claims that if the contestants of 1999 ever got into a fistfight with contestants from previous years, they'd probably kick butt.