1. In a system comprising a computing environment coupled to a capture device for capturing user position, a method of generating pose information for use in determining whether a user has performed a given gesture, the method comprising: (a) detecting via the capture device a location of a first skeletal joint of the user position; (b) detecting via the capture device a location of a second skeletal joint of the user position that is not a joint adjacent to the first skeletal joint; and (c) generating the pose information, including the location of the first skeletal joint relative the location of the second skeletal joint, for use in determining whether a user has performed a given gesture.