OK RC, you are not talking to some dirty, rotten, stinking "Leg" here. If the malfunction cannot be corrected prior to hitting your hard deck (typically around 2,000-2,500 feet), you should cut away your main canopy and deploy your reserve. Any time above that altitude you can atempt to clear your main. I dont know what altitude these guys were jumping from but it was most likely done from around 10k feet and could have had time to try to clear the main. We used to have several minutes to clear a fouled chute when we were doing HALOs from 25k! From 10k you got around 30 seconds before you discard your main and deploy your reserve. You may also have a AAD or a RSL that can save your bacon... 😁 BTW I have a pair of green feet tattooed on my ass if that tells you anything....