Last week Tiger Claw, a high-end martial arts equipment maker, and Disney’s Martial Arts Festival announced that they’ll be hosting a new national championship together starting next year. This is going to be a new division of the martial arts competition that Disney has been hosting since 1999 in its Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida’s Disneyworld campus––along with sports like volleyball, baseball, and soccer. That competition hosts 1,000 athletes watched by 5,500 spectators.

Mostly when I think of kung fu I imagine a sweaty-abbed Jackie Chan slo-mo destroying a bad guy with his flying feet. But when Variety reported on DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming flick, Kung Fu Panda, yesterday, the image got a little softer, more amusing––and slightly edifying. Jack Black's voice will star as Po, the most slacker panda in the Valley of Peace, who must get off his bamboo patch and become a kung fu fighter to save his town. Dustin Hoffman will be his Mr. Miyagi (paw on, paw off); Chan himself will voice Master Monkey, a kick-ass warrior; and Lucy Liu may be Master Viper, a Ms. Miyagi figure.