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?
The boards are durable in my opinion. The paint can chip so some protection may be required on the rails. Cocomat does not look great but it does gives the board a good feel. it is not as corky as epoxy. i have the 9'2" one which is my big board. i have ridden the 10' too which goes great. It is 29 wide but is super stable.
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.
Who would have thought that all those pubic hairs would make such a strong board.. 
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.
I've a 9'8 coco for surfing, very loose for its size. was so impressed with it I got a 12'6 DC coco for cruising
Can't go wrong with cocomat, strong and oh so light. good shapes too.
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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.
The deck is as hard as nails, the bottom on the other hand only needs to be breathed on the wrong way to ding it. I've got a 14' Coco Mat.
They could have added another layer of even fibreglass to the bottom skin for well less than a kilo and the thing would have been bulletproof.
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
