ABSTRACT
In order for coaches to design practice sessions for the optimal benefit of their athletes and in order for sports scientists and administrators to develop sports systems that are most suitable to identify and nurture the development of sports talent, it is necessary to know the answers to some fundamental questions. It is necessary to know, among other things:
• what specific attributes are essential for expert performance • how expert performers differ from everyone else in their control and learning of
perceptual-motor skills • what essential conditions need to be present during the developing years to improve
the chances that acquisition of exceptional skill will occur.
