The problem I had with the bird race is that I didn't read the instructions correctly, I was just pointing up to ascend but it turns out I needed to shake the wiimote to do that. So the first time I spent most of the time down in the clouds :p

About the menus, you don't use the cursor for that, tilting the remote is how you do it. I think that was a mistake, even if it works I think the cursor in the menus works better and is more intuitive. There's been a lot of confusion about that, and even if I read it before I also got confused when playing it.

Both your cousin and best friend's tvs have input lag then. Also LCD/LED/plasma are all the same when it comes to input lag bro. A good example of this is 'guitar hero 3' on the Wii. Try playing Guitar Hero on the Wii through your mates and cousins TVs and they will be unplayable unless they have a 'game mode' on their TVs. 'GAme mode' kills all the extra processing modern TVs use to make the picture so nice. In Game mode the games lose a lot of color and quality in the graphics but they don't suffer lag anymore. If your mate or cousin have an old school CRT tv give Skyward Sword a go through that and you'll see beautiful lag free 1 to 1 motion. 

Curse you! Now that the word is out, no one's mom is going to want to Wii Motion with me anymore. I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!

There's the spirit!

Now all that stands in your way is my Father, lol.

It's the opposite for me bro. I've also been playing Zelda since NES days and love Zelda so much but always kinda lose interest half way in. I've finished most of them but over many years. This is the first Zelda where i'm totally consumed by it. It's the best Zelda I've ever played and almost almost the best Nintendo game I've ever played and I'm a huge Nintendo fan.

At the time, I didn't know what this song meant.  Now, I understand.

 This song is dedicated to you, Euphoria's mom. 

*cries*

Keep going until you get to the second phase of the first boss fight.

That's the precise moment the game stops being boring.

LOL, you're too much!

After the first boss fight it send me back to the clouds where I lost interest. There's so little to find in the overworld, just a bunch of tiny floating rocks.

I can't remember the 2nd phase already, it did not leave an impression. I remember him trying to stick his tongue in my ear and then taking his clothes off... Then in the first phase he keeps grabbing your sword. "Hit differently from where you are pointing the remote" What? No clue how I got passed that. I kept trying to point the sword to one side, then quickly hit from the other side but it kept interpreting me wrong. I was about to plug the controller into port 2 when some hits finally registered and he went to the next phase.