It was early one morning in 2003. A group of long-time buddies were preparing for a quick run at the legendary Anderson Lake Park, near Gilroy, CA. The lake was smooth as butter. An eerie fog hovered over the water making swirling, here-then-gone shapes before their eyes. The buddies felt it – this was not like their other morning runs. No. This one was different, special. No one else was around. It was silent out on the water as the engine of their boat roared to life.
Jason, the fearless leader of the group, was the first to dive in. The glassy water rippled around him, telegraphing out the message of his presence. Another boat was heard approaching out of the stillness and fog. Paying no attention, the group launched out on the silky water for the first run of the day.
Suddenly, the rope went slack and the handle was seen flying into the air. Through the calm and mist, a voice was heard. It was Jason. In a mesmerized, hoarse yell the group heard the words, “WOAH… Check out that ass!!!”
As if Destiny was steering this vision straight toward them, the most amazing sight burst from the haze and appeared before the group’s eyes: a donkey on a wakeboard, halfway through a perfect monkey spin! What an incredible ass this was! Check out that ass, indeed!!!
The buddies pulled their boat up alongside the donkey’s boat and met Jack, the world’s only wakeboarding donkey, and his owner, Skeeter. (It had been Skeeter steering, after all, and not Destiny.) After a couple of early-morning beers – and quite a few ass jokes – an inseparable friendship was born. Skeeter translated as Jack, spoke in the distiguished donkey tongue, to persuade Jason and his crew to use their mad-machining skills for the Greater Good of wakeboarding donkeys and humans alike.
Thus, Big Ass Wake was born with an almost-divine mission, handed down to them from the noblest of steeds, the finest of asses, Jack: Provide the very best in billet wakeboard and boating products for The Greater Good of wakeboarding donkeys and humans alike. And that is just what they’ve done.