The water could stay together and easily twist and change shape. If he couldn't force it to go back and stop the started motion then he could just use the motion he started to reach an opponent. Within his mind he imagined that the water was being shaped in to a form of rope. If he could make the water act this way he could use it to stop an opponent from moving and even freeze the water rope in to ice to make it stronger. Both ideas were sound. However he found that this water rope he was creating was reacting strangely.
When he would influence one side the rope would reverberate all the way to the opposite end, somehow with a stronger force. This was just like when he made the whirlpool. The spinning seemed to gain more and more force as the water pushed itself. The slight pop he heard for the water rope was even more of a surprise since he could feel the very end of the water rope splitting off some very fast moving droplets.
