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Pierre Maixent

A French freerider reported riding at the 2008 Daytona Freeride and at the Cronulla Rip n' Ride in Australia, and backflipping a Sea-Doo Spark in France in 2015.

At a glance

Role
Racer and rider
On the record
2 years, from 2008 to 2015
Disciplines
Freeride, Freestyle
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
In the archive
1 history chapter
  1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
  2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005
  3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
  4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018 (this page's records)
  5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

The eras this page's records fall in are drawn solid; the others are hollow.

How we know: Each bar runs the years printed on that era's panel, and which eras a page falls in is the archive's grouping of its records, not the length of anyone's career.

Years 2008 to 2015, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 2008 2010 2015
  • a year printed above a fact on this page
  • a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 2008 and 2015. Printed above none, 2009 to 2014. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below.

  • Confirmed 0

  • Likely 5

  • Contested 0

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Results

Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the seventh Cronulla Rip n' Ride in Australia, posted 25 September 2014, which it says was not a full-on competition, names Pierre Maixent among the riders chosen to compete in the judged Jet Pilot Best of the Best there. It is a magazine's report, and no result sheet is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).

Sources: WCJ 25 September 2014 Cronulla Rip n' Ride

Riding outside a race

Likely

The same report says Pierre Maixent came to Australia to ride the new Rickter Edge, and that in the Friday session he pulled one-foot, one-handed flips.

Sources: WCJ 25 September 2014 Cronulla Rip n' Ride

2008 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's report of the 2008 X-Metal Daytona Beach Motosurf Freeride in Florida, dated 30 May 2008, says the French rider Pierre Maixent came to see what the Daytona Freeride was about and showed his skills on any craft he could get his hands on. It calls him 2007 IFWA Freeride World Champion, a title no held result sheet shows. Reading him as the Cronulla rider is the archive's inference, from the name and freeriding, since the Cronulla report prints no country for him.

Sources: PWI 30 May 2008 Daytona Freeride

2008 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's post of 2 May 2014 says Pierre Maixent, whom it calls a freerider from France, was filmed in 2008 performing a double backflip on a jet ski. It does not say where (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19). That the man in the film is the rider of the magazines' reports rests on the name, France and freeriding, the archive's reading.

Sources: WCJ 2 May 2014 double backflip

2015 · Likely

The Journal's post of 5 November 2015 says Pierre Maixent landed a backflip and two more, one of them one-handed, on a Sea-Doo Spark, which it calls the prototype of a new Spark division of MX100 Factory. It calls that company his, a freeride and freestyle shop building custom skis to order. It says the video was filmed at Montalivet, France, three days before the post, which dates it to November 2015. The archive again joins this rider to the others by the name and France, an inference.

Sources: WCJ 5 November 2015 Spark backflip

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • Personal Watercraft Illustrated calls him the 2007 IFWA Freeride World Champion and The Watercraft Journal calls him a seven-time world champion. The archive holds no IFWA result sheet (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18), so no title is stated.
  • The Journal's 2014 post calls the 2008 double backflip a first on a jet ski. That is the writer's claim, so it is not stated as a record.

Documents cited on this page

  • PWI 30 May 2008 Daytona Freeride (web.archive.org): Up In the Air, Daytona Beach Explodes with Freeriding Furvor, text by Allyson Wesley (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online feature dated 30 May 2008, Wayback capture of 21 August 2008), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2008-05-30; enthusiast media, medium. Report of the 2008 X-Metal Daytona Beach Motosurf Freeride in Florida, naming riders on the water and in attendance. Medium as the magazine's own report. The held copy is a partial copy of the feature.
  • WCJ 25 September 2014 Cronulla Rip n' Ride (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 7th Annual Cronulla Rip n' Ride Goes Off (The Watercraft Journal, 25 September 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-09-25; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's report of the seventh Cronulla Rip n' Ride in Australia, which it says is not a full-on competition: Mark Gomez among the riders from abroad and on the water in a good swell on the Friday morning. Its judged side contests are contests, and their placings are not used. Medium; the held copy is an excerpt.
  • WCJ 2 May 2014 double backflip (watercraftjournal.com): Flashback Friday: Pierre Maixent's Double Backflip (The Watercraft Journal, 2 May 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-05-02; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's short post on a video filmed in 2008 of a double backflip on a jet ski, with the video embedded. Medium for the year the post gives; the post's record claim and grading words are not copied or used.
  • WCJ 5 November 2015 Spark backflip (watercraftjournal.com): Video: MX100 Factory's Successful Spark Backflip (The Watercraft Journal, 5 November 2015), The Watercraft Journal, 2015-11-05; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's post on backflips performed on a Sea-Doo Spark, filmed at Montalivet, France, three days before the post, and on the shop MX100 Factory. Medium; the video sits on another person's page and is not hosted, and the post's titles and grading words are not used.
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“Pierre Maixent”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/pierre-maixent/

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