Thanks for playing!
We tried to give a different gameplay feeling to players depending on the pick up they have on. The simplest form of moving, yet slowest, being wind, then fire/normal, that both allow you to have a great air control. However we did go with a different approach for water, in which the players have the opportunity to be much faster, yet, lose more control.
You usually always can play the game in multiple ways, so we have no doubt that you can succeed where you previously failed :)