You have to learn to bleed off airspeed and then come in at a point where the flare actually stops the plane from flying. If you come in to hot, well, you will do one or two things.. you will most likely bounce because you came in and hit to hard, or you will balloon up and stall.

The trick is to get it to all happen at the same time, which takes some practice.

Do lots of approach practices, coming in lower and lower each time until you have the airspeed down enough so that when you tap the elevator to flare, adding just a small amount of up (pulling back on the elevator stick.. sorry.. I wanted to clarify that) the nose comes up but the plane does not climb.

You can practice this up high so that if you stall, you can recover. Then, get lower and lower until the flare maneuver actually settles the plane gently down on the ground.

Good luck with that.

CGr.