Agility Training and competition

I have a questions concerning the use of belly bands for training purposes in agility. I have a male dog who I use a belly band to prevent him from marking inside when we are visiting and they stated they can be used when starting to train male dogs on agility, can they be used in practice run throughs or on a novice dog on-lead so he will not mark the ring or equipment and hindering other competitors dogs?
I ask because I have a friend whose male dog always seems to either mark the entry into the agility ring or a piece of equipment when she is doing a practice run through when it is allowed at trials and it upsets all the rest of the competitors because even though she cleans up after him the other dogs still want to stop and delay at the spot where he marked and I would like to avoid this if I possibly can by working with my male dog using his belly band until he learns not to be marking the course and keeping the rest of the competitors happy.

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