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Motion capture refers to the technique of recording movements in a digital manner for different purpose in entertainment, sports or medical treatments. At present, most researches regarding motion capture as a use of accelerometers. Those accelerometers are normally attached to certain parts of the body; say the limbs or the hands. However, there are not much researches relating to traditional Chinese martial Art. Wii Remote also has built-in accelerometers. A player can connect Wii Remote through Bluetooth to the computer, and capture acceleration values through Wii Remote API, i.e. capture player’s motion. It is interesting to investigate on motion capturing and classification with Wii Remote. In this report, we are going to describe the motivation, background information, what we have done in this semester, as well as problems and limitations we encountered so far. Our objective is to first build a motion classifier to classify motions done with the use of Wii Remote, so that we can further make use of our classifier, either using in games, or for educational purpose