Little whickers

I walked up the lane to the school with Remy and we had a lovely session in-hand. We're starting to get a much better feel now. Remy's taking much more responsibility for the forward, being much more motivated and focussed. He's lowering his head into a nice stretch with relaxation and release of tension through his neck. It can be inconsistent, but if we lose it, we soon get it back. He's getting a lovely forward walk stride and today when I asked for shoulder-in and slowed my movement, he followed my example and rebalanced himself. I can now move toward his shoulder and he moves away very nicely with good lifting of his inside shoulder. He gave me a lovely giravolta into a shoulder-in on the circle. The best thing was the little whicker that he gave me during one of the movements - made my day.