Can Luke Benward Snowboard?

Benward has enough skill on a snowboard to get around but hasn't mastered any key moves. “Most of the movie deals with half-piping,” he said. “They tried to teach us how to drop into the half-pipe, but it's a lot harder than it looks. The experts ended up making us all look good.”

Is Cloud 9 a real snowboarding trick?

The title Cloud 9 apparently refers to some sort of trick, which looks suspiciously like a cab double cork, the same trick Kevin Pearce was trying when he tragically crashed out on the pipe (bit insensitive Disney?). However the protagonist ends up falling through the air arse-first, so it's pretty hard to tell.

Does Dove Cameron actually know how do you snowboard?

Although the 18-year-old is no stranger to the sport — "I started snowboarding when I was about 7," she told MTV News" — you won't see her performing any of her own stunts in the flick. "I think I did about 0 percent of my own stunts.

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