Carlos Jiménez holds a Master's degree in Neuroscience specializing in Multiple Intelligences. That background shapes how every class is structured — not a slogan, but the actual mechanism behind how techniques are taught, drilled, and retained at Kajukenbo NYC.
Most martial arts instruction assumes that watching a technique demonstrated, then repeating it, is enough for it to stick. It usually isn't — not under real pressure, months later, when it actually matters. The Neuroscience Method starts from a different premise: techniques are broken into the same 5–7 discrete phases the brain uses to chunk and retain new motor skills, rather than taught as one continuous, hard-to-recall blur — taught in Midtown Manhattan, steps from Grand Central Terminal and Bryant Park.
This is the same principle behind the phase-by-phase breakdown you see across our training videos and class structure — self-defense taught in a way built for how people actually learn under pressure, not just how it looks demonstrated.
Techniques are taught in short, repeatable patterns to reinforce long-term retention, not just short-term imitation.
Drills train selective attention — the ability to block out distraction and stay on the relevant threat under pressure.
Exercises engage the cerebellum and vestibular system directly, improving motor control rather than just strength.
Training in a controlled, repeatable environment helps regulate the stress response, so it holds up outside the studio.
Most schools teach a technique. We teach the phase of learning that technique sits in — so it's still there when you need it, not just when you're drilling it.
Carlos holds a Master's degree in Neuroscience specializing in Multiple Intelligences — the idea that people learn and retain skill through more than one channel: kinesthetic, visual, verbal, logical. Rather than teaching one way and hoping it lands, classes are structured to activate more than one of these pathways at once, which is part of why the method holds up across very different students.
It's the same lens applied across every program at Kajukenbo NYC — Kajukenbo, Balintawak, Tai Chi, Yoga, and Midday Reset all reflect the same underlying approach to how movement is actually learned, not just demonstrated.