Matti Suur-Hamari told about his violent accident on TV, in which he lost one of his legs – the best points of the night for Tanssi!

Dancing with the Stars in the program Katri Riihilahten competing as a dance student Matti Suur-Hamari tells about the accident that changed his life live.

In 2009, he was injured in a motorcycle accident, and his leg had to be amputated. Despite this, Suur-Hamar has years of successful snowboarding career behind him. Suur-Hamari tells about his first landing with a prosthesis in the insert of the program.

At the end of the evening, the couple was declared the best dancers of the entire evening. Swedish rock band Hellacopters By the Grace of god -song’s jive performance received a whopping 28 points from the judges and also made the studio audience stand up and applaud.

Right after the live broadcast, the two describe their experiences to Iltalehti.

– An absolutely amazing feeling and an absolutely amazing evening. Once again, our show had an absolutely incredible energy.

The song is especially important to Mati, so it was clear to Katri to make the dance as wonderful as possible.

– Pretty hard training for us. I think I mentioned a couple of times that we are now practicing not to get caught up in the song, Riihilahti laughs.

When it was announced at the end of the episode that the couple was the best of the night, the atmosphere was incredible, according to Suur-Hamari.

– This cannot be verbalized. This is so awesome.

– It felt the same as before. It was one of the best bills of my life.

Suur-Hamari is later won several gold medals in the Paralympics and Para Snowboarding World Championships.

– This shows how dance can show the possibilities of surviving even in seemingly impossible situations. You can’t help but admire and respect the couple’s effort, judge Jorma Uotinen praised.