Kake uke followed by a kick.
What? You want more?
Ok...To begin with the attack was just a stepping punch.
Uke (the receiver) steps back into a cat stance as they receive the punch so that the attacking limb is transferred to the rear hand (which becomes the front hand after the step) and then kick with the (now) front leg.
The next drill uke slides forward as the attack comes in, receiving the attack with the front hand and transferring the limb to the rear hand as they retaliate. In this exercise it was a kick. Or a knee to the body.
The next drill uke sidesteps to the outside as the attack comes in. Same attack (stepping punch) except now the attacker is specifically told to (attempt) hit and retract and not to leave the hand hanging out in the air (start to get rid of the straw man from the attack). Same defence except for the sidestep, and as the attacking limb retracts the defender pulls the hand down and in. This could be to unbalance the attacker (so that you can kick) or move to another something like a lock.
The next drill uke does kake uke followed by a kick (you see a pattern here, right?). Oh and the sidestep. The attack now has a second punch added. The punch didn't really matter as long as it wasn't a second straight punch (hook, cross, whatever you like pretty much) since nobody does two straight punches except in a karate class. The difference here is the defender probably loses or misses the transfer of the first punch from one hand to the other, but that's not important since the second part of the kake uke becomes a cover for the second punch from the attacker.
The aims here were mainly to move in different directions to receive an attack (hence the simple defence), adapt and apply the same defence to different attacks and to shift from straw man attacks to more natural movements on the part of the attacker.
The straw man, for those who don't know, is what we call the ultra-compliant attacker who just stands there after delivering their attack so that the defender can try to get things right.
Comments or thoughts?
Mick