Endurance Speed v Speed Skills?

^^^^ what he said cuz I am confused as well

Sorry for any confusion caused.

 In Joe Friel's "The Triathlete's Training Bible"  He talks about working on Speed Skills, i.e.: for swimming high elbows etc...

I also have the "Workouts in a binder" a book about swim workouts for triathlete's.  In there there is a section called Endurance Speed.  The workouts seam to be all at T-pace (your own time trial pace) or fast etc...

Basically I'm looking for some guidence on improving my swimming speed skills (technique) or better said some workouts that will help improve this...

The WIB "endurance speed" are workouts specifically geared towards increasing your ability to hold pace (or more so to get used to holding pace) for longer periods, not for working on your stroke which is what the Friel workout sounds like.

Edit: In my non-fish opinion the best way to work on speed in the water is short fast sets with low rest intervals.  Short enough distance that you can always maintain good form, but short enough rest that you still get a solid workout.  My swim coach said that one of her favorite workouts is 40 x 25 maintaining the same speed and stroke count.  She said that if even SHE can make it into the 30+ range and keep it consistent that she is having a great session.

Drills and speed sets are different. Drills (technique) are meant to help you work on certain aspects of your stroke, usually in one or two aspects and by doing different specific drills it will allow you to put together a better stroke as a whole. It is better if you have someone analyze your stroke so he/she can provide specific feedback as to what drills will help you the most. Speed sets are meant to help you work at a particular high intensity (LT, VO2 max, etc) to help you increase your endurance at such intensity.