Feet position

I have a question on feet position.  WHen a player is in ready position or even in looping posiiton, what direction should your toes be pointing?  Several ppl have told me to point them forward, but for some reason i cant move like that or bend my knees.  When i point my feet out like this \   /, i can bend my knees and move a tad better.  but still my footwork is still slow.  when i walk, my toes point out in that direction also, which is not suppose to be the correct way to walk.  Extra info:  i have flat feet.  which position should be the correct way?

Maybe they should point a litle straighter, but key points are:
crouch with weight forward on front of feet:
eg knees above toes. shoulders above slightly forward of knees. Feet should be a little wider than shoulders provided you are athletic enough.
Next weight should be to the front and the inside of each foot, so that the right foot is ready to push you to the left and the the left to send you to the right.
If you are a right hander as you execute a fh drive ideally the right toe would point to the side towards about where you contacted the ball. you would have sunk your weight on to that knee. Then used that power to throw your weight forward through the ball. The left toe will slide forward in a direction parallel to the path the ball travels. dont get too sideways before you hit the ball. Its weight going forward that does this. Practice fh from bh corner to bh corner as this is wthe direction the forehand footwork is simplest. Its a bit more complicated fh to fh as it can lead beginners to going across the ball.
Bear in mind if you are not an athletic person, by concentrating on touch play and control and studying your opponents weakness you can have successful career by using those attributes to make your opponent do the work. In that case a more upright relaxed stance can help you with blocking. Just get dynamic on the sitters! You may not get to world champ that way but you can certainly be a force in your local league!
Like in Perl programming theres more than one way to do it!
hope this helps

I was taught left foot forward slightly during ready position, same for volleyball- helps you move laterally

i mean your left heel is aligned with your right toe. i try to step in with the right foot on all pushes, but i don't need to move that much b/c i have long arms (READ: lazy