There are some really good girls that my gym competes against{we are rookie1-2}. In my gym we train three days a week for two and a half hours{ which i think is fine for rookies} Well, these girl train five days a week, i don't know how my hours, AND under the russian system. They are really good, at states one girl got a 10.0 on BEAM!!!! And every meet they go to they win first at everything ,even team. So i think if they are going to train like that, should'nt they train to be like novices or some thing? Because I feel nobody else has a chance, even if we work reallly hard, to get first place at some things!!!!!!!! What do you all think??