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.
Episodes
217 episodes
We're Talking Baseball & Curling
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" a long time friend from the other side of the world joins me for a back-and-forth about baseball and curling, especially the Olympic variety. That long friend is Hans Frauenlob. He'...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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28:59
This One Really Hurt
In today's episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we hear about a loss that will take some time to stop stinging. The speaker will be Danielle Inglis and the loss will be a provincial final. There will be two sound bites to co...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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25:13
Bill Digs Into The Podcast Mail Bag
It's time to dig into the "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" mailbag. I have extracted nine questions to answer as best I'm able. If you want see the questions, click on "Chapters" (above) to go those that are of special interest to you! For those w...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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37:45
A New Rule About Brushing
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I highlight a new rule, hot off the press regarding, you guessed it, brushing! I'll cite the exact wording of World Curling's rule adjustment and this time it's NOT about the equipment but rather...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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24:13
How Well Do You Know Your Team?
In this inaugural episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" for 2026 (Happy New Year to you all) we take a look at how you feel about your team and how your teammates feel about the team. Then, by using that extremely valuable information...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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23:03
A New Year's Pebble Water Edition
In this 21st Pebble Water episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I touch on two topics. The first is my take on a video by Jamie Sinclair that she posted on Facebook. It was excellent and it was about weight control, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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28:19
A Holiday Edition
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I have something for you and for the young children in your circle of family and friends. I suspect the brief introductory narration will elicit a lot of head nodding from parents of littl...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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7:20
Colleen
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" you will hear two voices, one belonging to Helen Radford, Curling Canada's Manager, NextGen & Podium Pathway who knew Colleen Jones as a friend, teammate and coach and the oth...
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Season 4
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Episode 44
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31:37
The Canadian Curling Trials From A Unique Perspective
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we hear from the Dean of Coaches, Dean Kleiter. His young team played in the Canadian Curling Trials and although they did not finish first, they gained a wealth of experience and...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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30:26
Pebble Water 20.0
In this pebble water edition of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I touch on a number of topics including grippers, planning, draw-to-the-button starts to a game, words that matter (a least to me), watching elite curling on TV, a sound b...
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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32:31
Levelling The Playing Field
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" you will hear three sound bites with a central theme. The first is a Ted Talk by Kate Johnson, Olympic Rowing Gold Medalist who is now actively promoting women's sports. She has a u...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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24:13
Empowering The Athlete Through The Awareness Method v. Slice & Dice
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I compare two methods of achieving a coach's signature goal, helping the athlete achieve a technical skill by either slicing and dicing or making the athlete aware of exactly what they're ...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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21:45
Pebble Water 19.0 - Asking Questions Always Defeats Arguing
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I veer off the sports road to bring a sound bite about the power of questions. This is another one of those episodes where the chapter markers (see above) will guide you to portions of the...
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Season 4
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Episode 39
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26:40
Emily's Back To Weigh In On Three Topics
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I welcome back Emily Riley (elite athlete & Certified Mental Performance Consultant). We're going to deal with three topics today, slow starts, distractions and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 38
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45:39
Two Coaches Discuss Weight Control
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I respond to a question sent my way from a coach who asked about curling's signature skill, weight control, how to measure it and more importantly, how to help his athletes develo...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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37:39
Course Corrections
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I pause to make two announcements. The first is about the distribution of my coaching manual, "A Pane In The Glass: A Coach's Companion" and the way listeners to the episodes of t...
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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30:38
Growing The Game In An Olympic Season
My returning guest today on "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" is Bobby Ray, Senior Manager, Club Development & Member Services for Curling Canada. This is not just any curling season, it's an Olympic curling season. His...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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17:29
The Drag Effect
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we take a look at perhaps the most interesting phenomenon in curling, the "drag effect". I'll explain what it is, why it occurs and how knowledge of the drag effect can win you a ...
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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27:01
Coach's Notebook - Practice
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I take a look at practice from the standpoint of an individual athlete and from a team perspective. It's a continuation of an episode in season three (“Practice - What A Novel Idea”)...
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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22:48
Pebble Water 18.0
In this pebble water version of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I deal with an application of "The Aggregation Of Marginal Gains" (from last week's episode) and a topic that almost goes without notice at the start of a curling season, fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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24:22
The Aggregation Of Marginal Gains
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we go back to Season 2 Episode 49. In that episode I interviewed Chris Karger, the fifth member of Team Denmark at the 2023 European B Men's Curling Championship. Chris had been...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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25:26
Better Than The Right Answers
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I reprise an article I wrote about the Socratic Method of teaching and instructing . As you might guess from the title of the episode, it's all about asking the right questions as oppose...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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24:00
Because We've Always Done It That Way
In this last of the summer series of episodes in "A Pane In The Glass Podcast", we take a look at the way organizations, (i.e. groups of people with a clear objective) go about achieving that objective. To illustrate what many groups do ...
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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19:07
Sunspot #8 - The Game Of Life
In this Sunspot episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we're going to play a game and it's about your life, how long you wish it to be and the status of your health as you enjoy longevity. Before that you will hear from some fellow lis...
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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30:02