ABSTRACT
Practice makes perfect, so they say. However, what does ‘perfect’ refer to, what does it entail, and how does practice lead to perfection? In the context of perceptual-motor skills, ‘perfect’ may be taken as ‘dexterous’, ‘the ability to find a motor solution for any external situation, that is, to adequately solve any emerging motor problem correctly, quickly, rationally and resourcefully’ (Bernstein, 1996: p. 228). This intuitively appealing statement has several important implications. We mention two that are at the core of Bernstein’s thinking.
