Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword Walkthrough Part 4 – The Wing Ceremony Race

After the Flight tutorial you and Zelda take a moment. Groose shows up after Zelda leaves and proceeds to embarrass himself again. The race begins automatically with you chasing after a Golden Loftwing.

Flap to gain altitude quickly then dive at the Loftwing. You do need to overlap it, just get close enough that you get the “Catch” command. You will need to do this twice as Groose interferes the first time just before you can claim the statue. Just remember to flap up to build speed then dive after the bird. This is nothing too hard so take your time about it. Groose it out of luck today.

Another Cutscene where Zelda places the statuette and plays the song you heard her practicing earlier. You are now granted the Sailcloth, a parachute of sorts for you to use throughout the game. The next part of the ceremony is you jumping from the landing into the middle of the circle below. You use the Remote to control your angle of descent. Tilt it toward or away from yourself to move Link in freefall. You have unlimited tries so do not worry about getting it the first time. First just get the hang of the general controls then worry about actually landing in the circle.

Another cutscene brings this part to a close. Something happens during the fly around with Zelda involving a twister that sucks in Zelda and launches you away!