Ask Axel Steiner
My husband Axel has made a generous offer: When he isn’t traveling, he’ll try to answer your questions about judging, training and dressage in general, here on my blog.
Now, be warned: you may have to be patient, because he travels A LOT! He’s judged in 35 countries. He judged the Sydney Olympics, multiple World Cups, and so many CDIs that we’ve lost count. He’s an “L” program faculty member and a member of the USEF Dressage Committee. He teaches and gives clinics regularly, too, which means that he garners more frequent flier miles in a year than most people accrue in a lifetime.
Whenever Axel does a question and answer period at a clinic, he always finds that there are more questions than there is time to answer them. So write them down, and when he’s not on a plane he’ll answer them here. Use the form below to submit your questions.
Oh, and you can ask him about freestyles, too. Axel’s a darn good dancer, and we belong to a few social ballroom dance groups, which is where this picture was taken. Not quite “Dancing With The Stars” but we sure have fun!


chuck and I would love to learn to dance he is like dancing with an 18 hand horse