That part I get. The more I use them, the easier they are... it's just getting them to come out in the first place. And since I'm mostly used to attacking...

[He's gotten better with wind, because he's also accustomed to travel across broken terrain and around dangerous enemies. Wind can help him move. But fire and earth tend to just blast and smash more than anything, whereas water is a struggle in general -- it's not much of an attacking element, after all.]