My grandfather got me started, Dad helped when he could but more than anything just time on the water. If you want to get better at something, do it every chance you get. I don't care if it's tournaments or fishing ponds; fish every chance you get. Even if you aren't thinking about it, you're learning. It's the Malcom Gladwell 10,000 hour rule. Anything you do for 10,000 hours, you'll be amongst the best at it. Class room time, reading, watching videos - they help - but none of that can compare to actually being on the water and fishing. There's a crazy learning curve involved where at first you're terrible and think you'll always be terrible, then pretty quickly you pick things up but from there it's levels off and you have to fight that slow, up hill climb of picking up little things here and there that no one can teach you - you just figure it out and you know it. It becomes less about hard and fast rules and more about instinct.