The first time Tricia Yap was hit hard in the face, she did more than survive \u2013 she strategised.<\/p>\n
She was not in a dark alley, nor a playground fight. She was in a white-collar boxing event in Hong Kong that, together with the months of training beforehand, was supposed to be a lighthearted distraction from her job as a tax technology consultant.<\/p>\n
After engaging in this \u201cHedge Fund Fight Nite\u201d competition, a fundraising event for charity, she was hooked. On top of her boxing training, she also took up kickboxing and jiu-jitsu<\/a>.So began her transition from office worker to Hong Kong\u2019s first professional female MMA fighter<\/a>. Nicknamed \u201cThe Bull\u201d, she turned pro in 2015.<\/p>\n For Yap, who was around 30 when she took part in that first charity fight and was at a crossroads in her life, the adrenaline, intensity and strategic puzzle of combat were an awakening.<\/p>\n \u201cIt can be quite hard to make decisions if you\u2019re getting hit in the face constantly,\u201d the 43-year-old laughs today, recalling the paradox of combat sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first time Tricia Yap was hit hard in the face, she did more than survive \u2013 she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[152287,703,49,48,152294,641,152291,14591,152288,106401,152293,152292,638,82,152289,152295,152286,152290,2372],"class_list":["post-350451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bikini-fit","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cross-country-paragliding","tag-fighting","tag-goji-studios","tag-holistic-medicine","tag-jiu-jitsu","tag-kickboxing","tag-lifestyle-medicine-summit-asia","tag-limitless-health","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-the-bull","tag-traditional-chinese-medicine","tag-tricia-yap","tag-warrior-academy","tag-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}