Martial Arts

Roles: kata, sensei, student, dojo, discipline, practice, form

Structured physical combat disciplines that encode knowledge in repeatable bodily forms (kata), master-student transmission (sensei/kohai), and deliberate practice in dedicated spaces (dojo). Martial arts vocabulary migrates into management and software through the lean manufacturing tradition, which borrowed heavily from judo and aikido philosophy — the idea that skill is built through disciplined repetition of fundamental movements, not through raw force or improvisation.

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