Today's episode in "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" is not about the National Football League but it is about two of that league's most notable franchises, the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots and your curling team. 
What does your team have to do with two professional NFL teams? Well, more than you might think but you' ll need to listen to this episode to found out what the connection is, and it's a very significant one in my view!
To conclude this episode I have announcements heralding two upcoming episodes about which I'm very excited and, well, you know what I'm going to say, you need to listen to find out what they will be about and why I'm so interested in bringing those episodes to your ears!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we hear the words of sports journalist, Steve Simmons, who in 1998 penned an article which is the title of this episode. At the time of writing, Mr. Simmons was a youth ice hockey coach and in a playoff game and at a critical juncture in the contest, one of his players tugged at his jacket and made a statement that changed the way he saw youth sports to this day. It's 2023. His words still ring true, words those of us who are involved with young athletes must never forget! Enjoy, "I Hope They Didn't Bring Apple Juice"!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" Level V Curling Official  Brenda Rogers takes us on a journey that explains; the role curling officials play, what life was like in the Calgary Bubble during those tense six weeks in 2021, the differences between Curling Canada rules and those of the World Curling Federation, the process to become a certified curling official and lastly how professionals measure rocks! I tell a story about my dialogue with the head official at a WCF championship that will stay with me forever!

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It's that right of passage time in a curling season. Your team can see the end of the 2022-23 campaign on the horizon. With or without a formal discussion, unless you're very different from the vast majority of teams, you wonder if it's time to make a change in personnel going into the off season in preparation for the next.
This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" weighs in on that topic with some ideas you may want to explore before making what could be a very bad decision!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast", ice technician Cody Hall of the Victoria Curling Centre explains the nuances of making ice and playing with rocks, not for championship venues (that episode was with Jon Wall in season #1) but in a curling facility much like the one in which most of you play. As Cody and I indicate in the episode, the more you understand about the ice and the rocks you use, the better you will play and the more you will enjoy the game!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast",  I build upon Pebble Water 1.0 published on Dec. 9, 2022 (S1E53). Once again I deal with a variety of topics which hopefully will inspire some outside the box thinking. Enjoy!

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This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast"  heralds the beginning of Season Two. Joining me in this episode is my highly paid staff (Jacob & Lucas Tschirhart) who will explain why this episode is not following the usual Saturday  publication. The content of this episode goes back to my roots of the podcast. Enjoy Straight, Simple & Silent!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" my friend Sean Turriff and I talk about summer curling camps. What? Summer curling camps at the beginning of February?  As you'll learn from Sean, they are not only valuable for young (and older) curlers but very popular as well. Many of the camps fill quickly so even though there may be snow on the ground where you are, now is the time to find a camp and enrol in it. But, as the title suggests, there's more to this episode.
Following our banter about summer curling camps and after I had hit "stop record", as coaches do, we morphed into a coaching discussion, this time about the value a coach can add to the over all performance of his/her team. Sean surprisingly discovered in a conversation with one of his athletes that ... well, you'll have to listen to find out what Sean heard and  why he wanted to talk about it. I felt the exchange between us was worthy of hitting the "record" button again. 

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I take a look at four, commonly played shots (one of which I've discussed previously) which might be the right shot to play (that's the strategy part) but are not played well (that's the tactics part) .  What are they? Take a listen to this episode and you tell me if I make a case for the way those shots are usually played and how they should be played!

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This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" is the followup episode to "It's About Time" (S1E58). In this  episode I take a look at technology which will make the acquisition and measurement of what I feel is the most important of all the skills in curling, weight control. I also reveal a personal bias toward the relationship that an instructor has with his/her novice (or experienced) athlete. I talk about awareness!

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