The Canadian Football League\u2019s Invitational Combine will be held in Waterloo, Ontario, this week.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
For Eatonia\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked on my footwork for running. I\u2019d 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.”<\/p>\n
Stevens added that it wasn\u2019t as hard as it sounds to change the way that he runs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen 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.”<\/p>\n