A Pane in the Glass Podcast
This podcast is hosted by Bill Tschirhart, a chartered professional coach with Coaches of Canada. It's for coaches, instructors , athletes & parents at all levels of experience & skills. Using articles from Bill's coaching manual ("A Pane in the Glass: A Coach's Companion"), his blog site (truenorthbill.blogspot.com), his 30+ years coaching & instructing athletes, augmented by interviews with highly skilled & experienced experts, the aim of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" to provide a valuable resource of information all the while producing episodes that will entertain the listener.
A Pane in the Glass Podcast
Latest Episodes
It's Why We Play The Games (part 2)
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we conclude the topic of "Why We Play The Games" (as we did in the first episode through the lens of wheel chair curling). That first episode left us at the conclusion of the 2026...
It's Why We Play The Games
In this first episode of two, "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" takes a look at the very essence of sport, why we play the games! I do it through the lens of wheel chair curling, one of the disciplines in the Paralympic Games but it...
A Very Different Look At The Power Of The Mind
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I conclude "The Survival Game" that we started in the previous episode, so get your score cards ready for the results. In the second part of this episode we hear about a very different app...
Fan Mail
Hi Bill, Thanks for this most recent show. Senior curler here started in 2019 after retiring. I'd agree it's just so obvious this is a team sport. Here at my club level I can tell you that skip broom placement makes all the difference. Some mustn't be holding it at the right place. There are just some skips that make me look like a million bucks. Same goes for good sweepers and weight calls to the skip. Sometimes the magic can't help but happen. Keep the podcasts coming, Kevin.
Richmond Hill, ON