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
208 episodes
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
Sunspot #7 - It's Your Turn
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" you will hear the thoughts of other listeners about the last two episodes on the culture of sport and entitlement. You may agree or disagree with what you hear but hopefully, what...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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23:08
Sunspot #6 - The Culture Of Sport (Continued)
As you can see by the title of this episode of "A Pane In the Glass Podcast", it's a continuation of the last episode ("The Culture Of Sport"). If you have not listened to the previous episode, please do so, it will make this on...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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13:52
Sunspot #5 - The Culture Of Sport
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I reach into my coaching manual ("A Pane In The Glass: A Coach's Companion") to a piece entitled "The Culture Of Sport". That was back in May of 2008 but the topic is jus...
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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29:26
Sunspot #4 - How Well Do You Play The Golf Course?
In this Sunspot episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we take a look at a somewhat unique way to approach a game of curling. I know, the title refers to how well you play a golf course but there's a very direct connection between th...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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17:38
Sunspot #3 - You Win Some, You Lose Some And Some ...
In this third summer episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we take a look at wins and losses from various perspectives. We hear from golf's #1 player, Scottie Scheffler with what I'm sure will be a surprising taking on winning, whic...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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26:33
Sunspot #2 - All Things Baseball
In this second Sunspot edition of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we recognize Major League Baseball's "All Star Game" with some sound bites: Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench and his view of the Pete Rose situation regarding his conside...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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20:23
Sunspot #1 - Talent v. Passion
This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" heralds a series of episodes for the summer of 2025 I'm calling "Sunspots". This is #1 and the topic is "Talent v. Passion". There are two soundbites, each involving very su...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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15:05
Foam Density: It Really Does Make A Difference
In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I welcome back to my microphone, Eugene Hritzuk of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. You may recall an episode about foam density in curling brushes (S3E51) where Eugene introduced us to t...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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43:23