Quantitative Motion Analysis of Tai Chi Chuan: The Upper Extremity Movement

Table 2

Comparison of the average similarity of the nine TCC forms and joint points.

	Head	Shoulder		Elbow		Wrist		Hand		Angle
		Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right	Left	Right
Preparation	0.30	0.32	0.32	0.32	0.31	0.32	0.29	0.31	0.29	0.21	0.19	0.29
Ward off	0.56	0.62	0.51	0.57	0.49	0.61	0.52	0.46	0.50	0.46	0.34	0.51
Roll back	0.55	0.52	0.58	0.52	0.55	0.55	0.51	0.39	0.53	0.11	0.13	0.45
Press	0.44	0.42	0.43	0.44	0.41	0.44	0.39	0.41	0.43	0.10	0.09	0.37
Push	0.44	0.33	0.36	0.35	0.41	0.40	0.40	0.44	0.44	0.12	0.14	0.35
Pluck	0.42	0.40	0.41	0.38	0.42	0.34	0.44	0.44	0.43	0.32	0.30	0.39
Lay	0.38	0.38	0.36	0.37	0.37	0.40	0.38	0.34	0.39	0.12	0.14	0.33
Elbow	0.41	0.37	0.41	0.33	0.41	0.34	0.37	0.37	0.41	0.09	0.10	0.33
Lean sideways	0.43	0.38	0.28	0.40	0.28	0.38	0.31	0.32	0.37	0.02	0.02	0.29
	0.44	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.40	0.42	0.40	0.39	0.42	0.17	0.16
		0.41		0.41		0.41		0.40		0.17