Don't feel bad, that happens to me a lot, too. Especially since I don't read the guides (funny, I just mentioned this in another thread). In WW, I didn't know you could steal with the grappling hook, I'd forgotten about jumping, and I never knew you could hold R with the sail down to move slow like that. So for the first half of the game I was using my sail and making huge jumps from one spot to another when I was trying to be precise.