The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of different competitive situations on elementary school students learning volleyball underhand skills. The subjects are 112 students (56 boys, 56 girls) from Jhushan Elementary School, Nantou County. They are assigned averagely and randomly and randomly into team competition group, individual competition group, self competition group and control group. The experiment item is to hit the volleyball. After six-week experimental practice, the results are as follows: 1. pre-tests and post-tests have distinctive differences in the groups of team competion, individual competition and self competition. 2. Getting better grades is distinctive in self competition group., the learning effects of self competition group is obviously better than that of the control group. 3. The pre-tests and the grades that retain are distinctive in team competition group, individual competition group and self competition group. 4. Making progess in grades that retain is distinctive in self competition group, the effect of learning retention in self competition group is better than that in control group. According to the research results, researchers propose result-related applications and suggestions for future studies.