NSP is pretty adamant on the durability and performance of these, and although they look good, they are very light. Anybody had experience with the durability angle?

I've got a 12'6" dc/NSP cocomat, no problems with the duribility and I've spent some time on the 9'2", I would say the cocomat would be a strong as anything out there as well as light.

I took my 9'2 Coco to Bali and put it through the 'baggage handling' and the 'lets drop in on the sup' test many times. No issues at all, including a short haul to Lombok.
I have seen many constructions over the years (7 now) and this does rate as one of the more durable out there.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and a good board that handles a lot of knocks quickly becomes a beautiful thing.
The biggest bummer is that they have not extended the performance range beyond the 9'2 and they dropped the 10' x 29 which was a great longboard style board.

AA said...
I took my 9'2 Coco to Bali and put it through the 'baggage handling' and the 'lets drop in on the sup' test many times. No issues at all, including a short haul to Lombok.
I have seen many constructions over the years (7 now) and this does rate as one of the more durable out there.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and a good board that handles a lot of knocks quickly becomes a beautiful thing.
The biggest bummer is that they have not extended the performance range beyond the 9'2 and they dropped the 10' x 29 which was a great longboard style board.

AA, there is a brand new 10' and 10'6 coming resized from the 9'2 in Coco Mat.. The old 10' had to go to make room for the updated shapes.

Below 9' is the domain of the DC Shapes..

The new boards will hit early 2015.

More developments and updated graphics on Coco coming soon.

We have had 3 Coco Matt boards in our Demo fleet now for 18 months - 9'2, 10' and 14' DC Coco. We have never had an issue with the bottom of these boards or any we have sold. The bottom of all boards are generally glassed lighter to keep the weight down and performance up, which does mean they are more susceptible to dings if you are unlucky enough to run into something