1. main a decent character (at this point if you use anybody worse than captain falcon you're goin nowhere fast)
2. find someone in your area who is around your same skill level and also uses a decent character. play him a lot, and think about your game. record friendlies if you can, it's much easier to see how and why you suck when you're watching videos of yourself. work on your strengths and weakness and ****
3. go to tournaments, get *****, play a lot of friendlies. talk **** on swf to random people before the tournaments to make sure they play you, do a lot of money matches, continue to enter tournaments despite the fact that you'll be getting harshly ***** in the beginning
4. don't get caught up in improving your tech skill, cause in the end, it doesn't really matter that much. it's not really how fast you move that matters, it's how often you make mistakes. just work on tech skill enough to where you can do whatever you want during a match without ****ing up most of the time, and then slow it down, think about your moves, and always try to work on playing smarter
5. spacing.
6. drink at least 8 ounces of gorilla semen per day, it has the nutrients you need to become a better player