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
152 episodes
If You Have A Million Dollar Delivery And A Two Cent Release ...
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I take a look at the way the curling stone is released and weight control, in my opinion the most important skill in a sea skills in the sport of curling. I conclude this episode with an email fr...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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28:24
Emily's Back With Something To Share With Parents
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" Emily Riley returns with wise words for parents of young athletes but what a parent will learn from this episode applies to what children do in all walks of life not just sports. For tho...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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46:39
Sports Injuries Involving Young Athletes
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I take a look at sports injuries involving young athletes. These athletes are not small sized adults but much too often, an injury arises because an uninformed individual including the athlete's ...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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24:40
Youth Curling Programmes That Work
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" you'll hear from Dustin Mikush & Bobby Ray of Curling Canada as they pass along diamonds of ideas for your youth programmes. Bobby & Dustin have been guests on the podcast on previous occ...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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32:11
Pebble Water 12.0
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I touch on a few topics, thus the title Pebble Water and in this case, the 12th version. First up is a quick revisit to "eye dominance" as it applies to the delivery of a curling stone. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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43:56
The Most Neglected Part Of A Curling Delivery
The title of this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" tells it all so no give away here. Suffice to say that this seemingly innocent aspect of a curling delivery, if not given the right care and feeding can lead to big problems! T...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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21:49
Straight, Simple & Silent - A Reprise
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we're going back to S2E1 for an update. Now that the curling season is beginning (for those in the northern hemisphere [so apologies to those in the southern hemisphere]), there will be a number ...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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31:22
The 2024 Paris Paralympic Games
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast", Olympian Hans Frauenlob once again shares the microphone this time to recount his role in the 2024 Paralymic Games from his perspective on the media bench.
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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28:01
"... But Nobody Died!"
This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" takes a look at one of the most important tools in one's tool box, for both coaches and athletes, attitude! If you can never leave your skills at home (something in which I truly believe) leaving th...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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43:28
It's Mailbag Time
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I reach into the mailbag to respond to some questions sent my way (coachbill@hay.net). Some deal with curling but others revolve around sports in general. I end this episode with another sound bi...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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45:24
Pebble Water 11.0
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I talk in more detail about how your team can be the most dangerous team in the competition. You'll hear that at the 02:10 mark. That's followed by three sound bites. The first at 10:05 is with t...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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30:12
The Paris Olympic Games From A Media Perspective
This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" pulls the curtain back on the Olympic Games from the perspective of the media. Our guide for this episode is Hans Frauenlob, Olympian (2006 Torino, Italy [curling]) and now a member of the internati...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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33:18
"Mind Of A Medalist"
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" you will hear a recording of an episode from another podcast, "Chasing Life", hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN. In his episode you will hear from a for...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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43:08
Coaching At The Olympic Games
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we hear from Jim Waite who has coached at four Olympic Games and although they were Winter Games, as Jim puts it, Olympic Games are Olympic Games, be they winter or summer. Jim has been a guest o...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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34:05
Let The Games Begin
This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" begins a series focused on the "Summer Olympic Games of 2024" hosted by Paris, France. For Canadians who follow the inevitable myriad story lines, those games began with what can only be described a...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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37:13
From The Archives
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I dig into my coaching manual ("A Pane In The Glass: A Coach's Companion") for two articles. The first is entitled "Right Off" and the second "It's About Time"! I end this episode with another mu...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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27:28
Eugene & Bill Talk About Foam Density In Curling Brushes
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" the subject is "foam density" underneath the yellow stuff. World Curling came out with a directive on the matter late last month. If you didn't see it somewhere, I begin with an audio version of ...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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38:15
An Update From Helen Radford On The "Next Gen" Programme
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" my long time friend from Halifax, NS, Helen Radford, joins me to give us an update on Curling Canada's "Next Gen" programme. You will also hear the voice of one of television's most out spoken ch...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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23:41
Bobby Ray Pays A Return Visit About Club Development
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast", Bobby Ray (Manager-Club Development & Membership Services) of Curling Canada returns to the podcast microphone to bring us up to date on the health of the sport as we come out of the pandemi...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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37:28
Revisiting Rock Fest & Ice Technician Programs
My guest today on "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" is Dustin Mikush (Manager, Youth Program Development for Curling Canada). Earlier in this season of the podcast, Dustin shared the microphone with me to announce two new programs in his portfolio....
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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18:59
Pebble Water 10.0
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I have gathered some thoughts on five topics, some from my own archives and others from more recent activities in the world of sport. They include "The Culture Of Sport", "Coach Certificati...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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30:13
Why Stones Curl & Why Brushing Works
In today's episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I once again share my microphone with Eugene Hritzuk of Saskatchewan. You know his name if you've listened to other episodes of the podcast in connection with what has become the topic de jour...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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57:44
Seventeen Inches
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" you'll hear a narrative entitled "Seventeen Inches". It's not new, in fact it refers to a coaches conference in 1996. At that conference, one of the guest speakers was 78 year old Coach John Scol...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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14:08
Practice - What A Novel Idea!
Sarcasm aside, in this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I reach back to an article I penned on my blog site (truenorthbill.blogspot.com) about practice. It was not meant to be an exhaustive examination of the topic, in fact it was aimed...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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32:19
From The Coach's Bench (Dr. Glenn Paulley)
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we return to the "From The Coach's Bench" series, this time with Dr. Glenn Paulley. This series of episodes provides coaches with long and very successful careers an opportunity to share wh...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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40:10