I also have a human monk and train Safe Fall by falling. I find a bridge in
the Plane of Knowledge (no monsters) and figure out how high I need to fall
from to take damage, but as little damage as possible. I drop an item on
that spot, shruiken usually, so that I know where to jump off at when I run
back up. A while of that and I stop taking damage from that level and move
the item up the bridge. I don't usually have to fall to many times to make
it raise a point. There is a max you can raise a skill to, so once you hit
the max you will never gain more points until you go to another level. I
think it's 5x level +10 so at 9 max is 55, but I could be wrong. This may
be why you can not raise it now. I would never spend points on Safe Fall, I
put all my points in Mend. I find Mend to helpful to waste just to train,
unless you are just training and not facing any real dangers. All my
fighting and defense skills tend to max out from fighting so I see no reason
to add to them.

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> As a monk, how do I improve my safe fall skill without spending all
> my points on it?
>
> I keep jumping off tall things and taking damage but no improvement.
>
>
> Why are all the characters white? What if I want to play a black
> person?
>