Practise boomerang LJA spots (the timing and position is different in most of them) Sword and Shield skip LJA, EMS, do a couple of dungeons and twilight area runs so you can practise some tricks etc.
I don't think there's a real TP IRC channel unless you count #pheenoh...
Btw, do you have the GC or Wii version? I assume the former.
GC of course. And thanks, I'll do that!