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
Exciting News About Youth Curling In Canada
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we hear from Dustin Mikush of Curling Canada and Jill Brothers of Nova Scotia Curling. They bring exciting news for youth development in Canada.
Have Youth Sports Become Too Expensive?
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I use an article from McLean's magazine written by Claire Gagne. The topic is the cost incurred by parents whose children play sports (& not just at the elite level)....
The Chair Of World Curling's Athlete Commission
As the title of this week's episode indicates, I chat with the newly appointed chair of World Curling's "Athlete Commission", Harri Lill from Estonia. We talk about the Athlete Commission plus curling in general. Harri welcomes ...
Rules Are Worthless Without This
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we take a look at perhaps the most important part of the rule book for curling, the codes of ethics (and you'll notice I used the plural from of the noun ethics because there's more than o...
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