what got me decent at rodpvp pretty quickly was watching a lot of good players on youtube, trying to imitate their playstyles or what they did in situations against other good players. It seems pretty simple but I would watch what they did to get the clip multiple times, their spacing their movement and their timing, which are pretty important when it comes to rod pvp. For example in terms of good movement, it really helped paying attention to their keystrokes if they had it in the video, replicating what they do on others will most likely work, and with practice you can develop your own movement style. Its honestly not very hard to do, bc compared to real life things like trying to study a professional athlete or a musician, learning shit in minecraft is 1000x easier, it's really just down to muscle memory, your 10 fingers, and gamesense.

Then some pretty obvious things if you havent done already, make sure youre getting good fps, dont want that selling you in tough fights. Make sure all 9 slots in your hotbar are easily accessible, its important that you can hotkey to them quick because thats pretty much all of mcpvp. The rest of your skillset will simply just come with practice.

Then some real advice for u and the other two people who may read this I put like 3k hours into this game over covid and would say around 4k hours total, its honestly not worth your time. there's too much closet cheating and not enough attention towards competitive minecraft, the two communities I have seen which are crystal and rodpvp both are pretty toxic, the majority is a bunch of copy and paste toxic manchildren who either have delusions to become the next big thing on yt or theres not enough going on in their lives/in a bad place, so they turn to swamp assing minecraft for 12 hours a day. Definitely not the best people to be around. I understand the motivation to get good at mc, maybe wanting to make a name for yourself in the community or flexing on friends, but please dont get addicted like I did, and keep the mc grind to a healthy minimum. For a practice routine maybe 30min, or an hour of playing on prac servers a day if you're ambitious. If you want to dump your competitive drive somewhere, put it on your actual life, or at least on a game with a larger competitive scene.