When I was first learning I struggled more with my takeoffs than my landings. I know it is strange, but true. Two things that have helped me more than anything with landing in the exact order are:

1. KNOW the plane you are flying (This is too often overlooked)! The planes I struggle with landing the most are the ones I am not overly comfortably flying yet (small Revolver is one that has given me a fit - after about 25 flights now the landings can still be dicey!) [X(] Once I really learn my aircraft it makes landing all the difference for me. The more I get familiar and confident in the flying characteristics of the type of airplane the better my landings become.

2. Practice approaches over and over with variations in speed gently changing altitude. This one to me is a no brainer. I have observed the people that struggle the most with landing and what I found was that their approaches varied enormously and this always seemed to end up in broken gear or just bad landings in general. You may have one smooth greaser then the next one result in busted gear. They may enter the runway on one side, then on the next side, then too high, then too low, etc. I often will just fly landing approach patterns a half-dozen times or more in my first flight or two (as needed) to get me in the "zone" of comfort and it has proved invaluable for me and I believe has saved me a number of times.

I hope this can help someone. Each of us can contribute our part [8D]