The Canadian Football League’s Invitational Combine will be held in Waterloo, Ontario, this week.
For more than 140 Canadian athletes, the event is an opportunity to showcase their abilities and earn a spot at the main combine in Edmonton at the end of the month.
For Eatonia’s Johnathon Stevens, a member of the Canadian Bowl Champion Saskatoon Hilltops, he has been refining his talents in the gym this off-season, including re-learning how to run.
“I worked on my footwork for running. I’d lean too much forward, or I’d bring my foot too much forward, and then I’d end up running on my heels. Then they would say bring your foot back a little bit, and then you run on your toes more, like the balls of your feet, so that you can get that more consistent power and consistent speed, and you’re not collapsing on your foot, is how they explained it.”
Stevens added that it wasn’t as hard as it sounds to change the way that he runs.
“When you’re getting coached up, you have to almost think that you haven’t learned anything. You have to think like, I don’t know anything here, so I got to listen to them and whatever they have to do, because they’ve been doing this forever and I’ve only started doing this, if that makes sense. If you have that mindset, I didn’t find it as hard to overcome the running.”
You can hear the entire conversation with Stevens at SportsCage.com.
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