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Originally Posted by Anthony
The claim that strength is unimportant to melee combat skills is generally a claim made by people who want to sell lessons in melee combat skills to people who don't want to do strength work. Strength, at least in specific muscle groups, is not really necessary for accuracy, but it absolutely affects power and speed.
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A lot of it is just vagueness about what "important" means. Strength isn't necessary - relatively weak people can kill you, but it also isn't useless - strong people can kill you more easily. Is something that is useful but not required "important". Depends on context doesn't it?