#Does anyone have trouble with stopping a flap from turning into a trill with r?

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weak lynx
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I feel like whenever I try to make the /ɾ/ sound, it ends up turning into a trill (not just jp). Any tips?

halcyon halo
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The most common variant is an alveolar lateral flap, which is impossible to trill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_lateral_flaps
A lateral approximant /l/ is super good enough when you're starting out, and it tends to morph into the correct sound when you're pressured to speak more quickly.
To answer the question for other languages, you pretty much just need to relax more. A flap is a half-assed consonant, you push your tongue into it and then immediately give up - the muscle effort goes away and the consonant falls appart.

Voiced dental and alveolar lateral flaps

The voiced alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɺ⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter ⟨r⟩ with a letter ⟨l⟩. Approved in 1928, the symbol represented a sound intermediate between [d] and [l] or between [r] and [l]...