Bill Hamilton regarded surfing more as a work of art, rather than based chiefly on wave-by-wave ride performance scored by judges. However, competitive surfing and contests never appealed to Hamilton, who had watched his father Bill endure the competitive surfing contest politics and the random luck of the waves in organized championship surfing events. Pipeline on the north shore of Oahu where Hamilton grew upīy the age of 17, Hamilton had become an accomplished surfer and could have left modeling to pursue a career on surfing's World Championship Tour. He has had long-time sponsorship from the French beachwear company Oxbow surfwear. In 2008 Hamilton announced his own "Wonderwall" line of affordable clothing, sold through Steve & Barry's until that retailer shut down at the end of January 2009. Hamilton continued to do occasional men's action sportswear print modeling. At 17, Hamilton was discovered on a beach in Kauaʻi by a photographer from the Italian Men's Vogue magazine L'Uomo Vogue which landed him a modeling contract and later a 1983 photo shoot with the actress Brooke Shields. When 16, Hamilton left the eleventh grade at Kapaa High School to pursue a modeling career and work in construction. Young Laird is shown in early video footage jumping off a 60-foot cliff into deep water at 7 years of age. He was also known for his physical and mental toughness. He became used to this role and was uncomfortable being in the center of anything. The role of the outsider profoundly affected Laird through to his teen years and early adult life. Hamilton had a reputation for an aggressive demeanor around others of his age. Laird's mother died of a brain aneurysm in 1997. Joann and Bill had a second son, Lyon, Laird's half-brother, who also became a surfer. The family later moved to a remote valley on Kauaʻi island. Bill Hamilton married Laird's then-single mother, becoming Laird's adoptive father. The young Laird invited Bill Hamilton home to meet his mother. Bill Hamilton was a surfboard shaper and glasser on Oahu in the 1960s and 1970s and owned a small business handmaking custom, high-performance surfboards for the Oahu North Shore big wave riders of the era. In 1967, while still a young boy living on Oahu, Laird met with 1960s surfer William Stuart "Bill" Hamilton, a bachelor at the time, on Pūpūkea beach on the North Shore. While he was an infant, Laird and his mother, Joann (née Zyirek), moved to Hawaii. Zerfas, left the family before his first birthday. Laird was born Laird John Zerfas in San Francisco on March 2, 1964, in an experimental salt-water sphere at UCSF Medical Center designed to ease the mother's labor.
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