What's going on? Is Kung Fu going to go through another wave (even though most of the people involved in these TV shows are mixed martial artists and Tae Kwan Do or Karate practitioners)? I don't remember it being in the media this much... is that just because I've only been involved in martial arts for 9 months?

This happens with skateboarding too... it will be the coolest thing in the world and be all over TV and skateboarders are "cool", then it just drops and dies out.

Is this typical for martial arts in the mainstream?