Re: [bloerkk] Maxence Cappelle died
Maxence was a young kid, enthusiastic about BASE and WS base in particular. He posted a few re-edits of videos by Jokke and Ludo, and frequently hung out with various well known jumpers. All eager to just help out and feed his enthusiasm. He also met up with us once, as we jumped the crack, and shot some nice video of us flying past.
He did a few AFF jumps, and (not sure) one or two PCA jumps.
Hanging out with all 'famous' jumpers did sadly end up creating a bit of an attitude, where he more and more got aggressive online toward just about anyone who interacted with him. It got to the point where he became a person almost nobody wanted to really talk to, at which point he sort of disappeared from the sport.
He then found a new hobby in creating a facebook page (with several million followers) rallying against lion hunting, and if I remember correctly had a bit of a run in with the law due to a mock charity funding page, which mostly ended up as a support for his own income.
His girlfriend supporting him, did get him out of that rut as well and him becoming a father seemed to straighten him out quite well. He created quite a successful YouTube channel and Instagram, with various semi-scientific experiments and a good 200K+ followers/subscribers. Sadly it ended with loss of life, as it was a really nice tale of redemption up to that point..